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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... passage of his Inferno . Some of his commen tators have assigned a similar office to Guinezilli , of whom it is certain that Dante speaks with the highest veneration , bestowing on him the appellation of massimo ' and accosting him as ...
... passage of his Inferno . Some of his commen tators have assigned a similar office to Guinezilli , of whom it is certain that Dante speaks with the highest veneration , bestowing on him the appellation of massimo ' and accosting him as ...
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... passage which arrests the reader so forcibly by the au- stere sublimity of its style , that we believe the present critic is the first who has discovered in it a fault of conception , which we are not altogether disposed to admit . It ...
... passage which arrests the reader so forcibly by the au- stere sublimity of its style , that we believe the present critic is the first who has discovered in it a fault of conception , which we are not altogether disposed to admit . It ...
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... passages , seemingly the most inauspicious for his purpose , such exquisite representations of natural objects , and of the feelings which they are calculated to inspire , as can hardly be equalled by those of any poets in the most ...
... passages , seemingly the most inauspicious for his purpose , such exquisite representations of natural objects , and of the feelings which they are calculated to inspire , as can hardly be equalled by those of any poets in the most ...
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... passage of which the last line probably suggested to Gray the opening of his elegy . " Twas now the hour when fond desire renews To him who wanders o'er the pathless main , Raising unbidden tears , the last adieus Of tender friends ...
... passage of which the last line probably suggested to Gray the opening of his elegy . " Twas now the hour when fond desire renews To him who wanders o'er the pathless main , Raising unbidden tears , the last adieus Of tender friends ...
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... passages ( for example , the personification of the city of Rome ) not only spirited but even sublime . Nevertheless , it has enjoyed the honours of only two editions , both scarce , and the last , which is the least difficult to be met ...
... passages ( for example , the personification of the city of Rome ) not only spirited but even sublime . Nevertheless , it has enjoyed the honours of only two editions , both scarce , and the last , which is the least difficult to be met ...
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