Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 7D. Appleton, 1879 - English literature |
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Page 53
... Divine Comedy , ap- peared in dark and half barbarous times : and thus of the few original works which have been produced in more polished ages we owe a large proportion to men in low stations and of uninformed minds . I will instance ...
... Divine Comedy , ap- peared in dark and half barbarous times : and thus of the few original works which have been produced in more polished ages we owe a large proportion to men in low stations and of uninformed minds . I will instance ...
Page 61
... Divine Comedy is the strong belief with which the story seems to be told . In this respect , the only books which approach to its excel- lence are Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe . The solemnity of his asseverations , the ...
... Divine Comedy is the strong belief with which the story seems to be told . In this respect , the only books which approach to its excel- lence are Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe . The solemnity of his asseverations , the ...
Page 64
... Divine Comedy without observing how little impression the forms of the external world appear to have made on the mind of 64 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... Divine Comedy without observing how little impression the forms of the external world appear to have made on the mind of 64 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
Page 68
... Divine Comedy is of the elder and more colossal mould . It breathes the spirit of Homer and Eschylus , not of Ovid and Claudian . This is the more extraordinary , since Dante seems to have been utterly ignorant of the Greek language ...
... Divine Comedy is of the elder and more colossal mould . It breathes the spirit of Homer and Eschylus , not of Ovid and Claudian . This is the more extraordinary , since Dante seems to have been utterly ignorant of the Greek language ...
Page 69
... Divine Comedy . Boyd's is as tedious and languid as the original is rapid and forcible . The strange measure which he has chosen , and , for aught I know , invented , is most unfit for such a work . Transla- tions ought never to be ...
... Divine Comedy . Boyd's is as tedious and languid as the original is rapid and forcible . The strange measure which he has chosen , and , for aught I know , invented , is most unfit for such a work . Transla- tions ought never to be ...
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