The Quarterly Review, Volume 11William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1814 |
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... genius , was the last in order of birth , and actually burst into the full splen- dour of maturity , while yet the world was almost unconscious of its existence . A whole generation of Italian poets intervenes be- tween the age of Dante ...
... genius , was the last in order of birth , and actually burst into the full splen- dour of maturity , while yet the world was almost unconscious of its existence . A whole generation of Italian poets intervenes be- tween the age of Dante ...
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... genius , to mould it into the regular and beautiful symme- try which it has ever since retained . It would seem a sufficient confirmation of this doctrine , ( if it wanted any , ) that each dialect , in proportion as it approaches the ...
... genius , to mould it into the regular and beautiful symme- try which it has ever since retained . It would seem a sufficient confirmation of this doctrine , ( if it wanted any , ) that each dialect , in proportion as it approaches the ...
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... genius was probably improved by the separation ; yet is it noticed as one of the prin- cipal causes which operated towards the discredit and ultimate overthrow of the art . It is unnecessary in this place to follow those causes closely ...
... genius was probably improved by the separation ; yet is it noticed as one of the prin- cipal causes which operated towards the discredit and ultimate overthrow of the art . It is unnecessary in this place to follow those causes closely ...
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... genius to a height which disdains the application of all the ordinary rules of measurement , it is assuredly Dante . His poem , that amazing monument of unrivalled powers , can be judg- ed by itself alone ; and while the critic ...
... genius to a height which disdains the application of all the ordinary rules of measurement , it is assuredly Dante . His poem , that amazing monument of unrivalled powers , can be judg- ed by itself alone ; and while the critic ...
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... genius of Dante is in no respect less capable of being duly appreciated through the medium of translation than in the art which he so eminently possessed , of painting in words ; of re- presenting objects which are the pure creations of ...
... genius of Dante is in no respect less capable of being duly appreciated through the medium of translation than in the art which he so eminently possessed , of painting in words ; of re- presenting objects which are the pure creations of ...
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