 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1899 - Страниц: 188
...in heaven or hell. He might therefore reasonably confine himself to magnificent generalities. . . . And I will frankly confess that the vague sublimity...abyss' ; we seem to see the dilated eye of horror, to hear the shuddering accents with which he tells his fearful tale." The contradiction becomes most patent... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - Страниц: 216
...and made fairly habitable. 1.31. settling precedency. In his Criticism on Dante, Macaulay says : ' I will frankly confess that the vague sublimity of...affects me less than these reviled details of Dante.' 1. 36. He is the very man .... ' The people of Verona, when they saw him on the streets, used to say... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1904 - Страниц: 500
...others appear " unutterable," — to relate with the air of truth what fables had never feigned, — to embody what fear had never conceived. And I will frankly...abyss;" — we seem to see the dilated eye of horror, to hear the shuddering accents with which he tells his fearful tale. Considered in this light, the narratives... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1904 - Страниц: 350
...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...abyss,' we seem to see the dilated eye of horror, to hear the shuddering accents with which he tells his fearful tale." " On a re"pete" a outrance," Chasles... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1909 - Страниц: 776
...others appear ' unutterable,' — to relate with the air of truth what fables had never feigned, — to embody what fear had never conceived. And I will frankly...has returned from ' the valley of the dolorous abyss ' — ' La valle d' abisso cloloroso,' Inferno, canto iv ; — we seem to see the dilated eye of horror,... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1909 - Страниц: 776
...others appear ' unutterable,' — to relate with the air of truth what fables had never feigned, — to embody what fear had never conceived. And I will frankly...has returned from ' the valley of the dolorous abyss ' — ' La valle d' abisso doloroso,' Inferno, canto iv ; — we seem to see the dilated eye of horror,... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1909 - Страниц: 774
...what fear had never conceived. L\.nd I will frankly confess that the vague sublimity of Milton Effects me less than these reviled details of Dante. We read...has returned from ' the valley of the dolorous abyss ' — ' La valle d' abisso doloroso,' Inferno, canto iv ; — we seem to see the dilated eye of horror,... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1922 - Страниц: 270
...his images to float undefined in a gorgeous haze of language," and has given us his splendid lines, "I will frankly confess, that the vague sublimity of Milton affects me less than these reviling details of Dante. . . . We read Milton and we know that we are reading a great poet: When... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1923 - Страниц: 274
...lines, "I will frankly confess, that the vague sublimity of Milton affects me less than these reviling details of Dante. . . . We read Milton and we know...has returned from the Valley of the dolorous Abyss !" This whole study of Dante is earnest, appreciative, acute. He places him where he belongs, at the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 2005 - Страниц: 553
...to others appear " unutterable," to relate with the air of truth what fables had never feigned, to embody what fear had never conceived. And I will frankly...the poet vanishes. We are listening to the man who had returned from " the valley of the dolorous abyss; " 1 we seem to see the dilated eye of horror,... | |
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It was absolutely necessary for him to delineate accurately "all monstrous, all prodigious things," — to utter what might to others appear " unutterable," — to relate with the air of truth what fables had never feigned, — to embody what fear had... 
