 The style of Dante is, if not his highest, perhaps his most peculiar excellence. I know nothing with which it can be compared. The noblest models of Greek composition must yield to it. His words are the fewest and the best which it is possible to use....  Knight's Quarterly Magazine - Page 2211824Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 374 pages
...form and void ; and darkness is upon the face of them. Yet how many men of genius have panegyrised and imitated them ! The style of Dante is, if not...amplification would only injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind. Yet there... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 pages
...form and void ; and darkness is upon the face of them. Yet how many men of genius have panegyrised and imitated them ! The style of Dante is, if not...amplification would only injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind. Yet there... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 450 pages
...form and void ; and darkness is upon the face of them. Yet how many men of genius have panegyrised and imitated them! The style of Dante is, if not his...amplification would only injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind. Yet there... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 424 pages
...without form and void; and darkness is upon the face of them. Yet how many men of genius have panegyrised and imitated them! The style of Dante is, if not his...which it is possible to use. The first expression in wnich he clothes his thoughts is always so energetic and comprehensive that amplification would only... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 372 pages
...form and void ; and darkness is upon the face of them. Yet how many men of genius have panegyrised and imitated them ! The style of Dante is, if not...amplification would only injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind. Yet there... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1862 - 326 pages
...Lord Macanlay as his peculiar, if not his highest, excellence. " I know nothing," says his Lordship, " with which it can be compared. The noblest models...amplification would only injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any lan?aage who has presented so many striking pictures to the mind, et there... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 730 pages
...form and void ; and darkness is upon the face of them. Yet how many men of genius have panegyrised and imitated them ! The style of Dante is, if not...amplification would only injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind. Yet there... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 420 pages
...me to see minds, graceful and majestic as the Titania of Shakespeare, bewitched by the charms of an ass's head, bestowing on it the fondest caresses,...amplification would only injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind. Yet there... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 264 pages
...me to see minds, graceful and majestic as the Titania of Shakespeare, bewitched by the charms of an ass's head, bestowing on it the fondest caresses,...amplification would only injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind. Yet there... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 432 pages
...me to see minds, graceful and majestic as the Titania of Shakespeare, bewitched by the charms of an ass's head, bestowing on it the fondest caresses,...amplification would only injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind. Yet there... | |
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