 And I will frankly confess that the vague sublimity of Milton affects me less than these reviled details of Dante. We read Milton ; and we know that we are reading a great poet. When we read' ' Dante, the poet vanishes. We are listening to the man who...  Saint Pauls - Pàgina 631871Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 264 pàgines
...than these reviled details of Dante. We read Milton ; and we know that we are reading a great poet. When we read Dante, the poet vanishes. • We are...shuddering accents with which he tells his fearful tale. Considered in this light, the narratives are exactly what they should be, — definite in themselves,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 468 pàgines
...than these reviled details of Dante. We read Milton ; and we know that we are reading a great poet When we read Dante, the poet vanishes. We are listening...shuddering accents with which he tells his fearful tale. Considered in this light, the narratives are exactly what they should be, — definite in themselves,... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1871 - 608 pàgines
...but only with reference to the " Inferno " and " Purgatorio." When he comes to the " Paradiso " he dismisses the subject in a few lines : " But among...shuddering accents with which he tells his fearful talo." * No mention is made of the reverse side of the marvellous picture presented to us by Dante,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 718 pàgines
...than these reviled details of Dante. We read Milton ; and we know that we are reading a great poet. When we read Dante, the poet vanishes. We are listening...shuddering accents with which he tells his fearful tale. Considered in this light, the narratives are exactly what they should be, — definite in themselves,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1878 - 568 pàgines
...of the power of the Divine Comedy is the strong belief with which the story seems to be told. . . . When we read Dante, the poet vanishes, we are listening...shuddering accents with which he tells his fearful tale." — " Works," voL vii. p. 611. t O for a Muse of Fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 684 pàgines
...than these reviled details of Dante. We read Milton ; and we know that we are reading a great poet. When we read Dante, the poet vanishes. We are listening...shuddering accents with which he tells his fearful tale. Considered in this light, the narratives are exactly what they should be — definite in themselves,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 844 pàgines
...details of Dante. We read Milton ; and we know that we are reading a great poet. When we read Dnnte, the poet vanishes. We are listening to the man who...shuddering accents with which he tells his fearful tale. Considered in this light, the narratives are exactly what they should be,—definite in themselves,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 498 pàgines
...than these reviled details of Dante. We read Milton ; and we know that we are reading a great poet. When we read Dante, the poet vanishes. We are listening to the man who has returned from " the vail ey of the dolorous abyss ; " ' — we seem to see the dilated eye of horror, to hear the shuddering... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 pàgines
...than these reviled details of Dante. We read Milton ; and we know that we are reading a great poet. When we read Dante, the poet vanishes. We are listening...shuddering accents with which he tells his fearful tale. Considered in this light, the narratives are exactly what they should be, — definite in themselves,... | |
 | 1885 - 248 pàgines
...than these reviled details of Dante. We read Milton, and we know that we are reading a great poet. When we read Dante, the poet vanishes. We are listening...has returned from ' the valley of the dolorous abyss ; ' and we seem to see the dilated eye of horror, to hear the shuddering accents with which he tells... | |
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