Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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Page 12
... strange land , they produce upon us an effect wholly independent of their intrinsic value . One trans- ports us back to a remote period of history . Another places us among the novel scenes and manners of a distant region . A third ...
... strange land , they produce upon us an effect wholly independent of their intrinsic value . One trans- ports us back to a remote period of history . Another places us among the novel scenes and manners of a distant region . A third ...
Page 18
... strange , however grotesque , may be the appearance which Dante undertakes to describe , he never shrinks from describing it . He gives us the shape , the colour , the sound , the smell , the taste ; he counts the numbers ; he measures ...
... strange , however grotesque , may be the appearance which Dante undertakes to describe , he never shrinks from describing it . He gives us the shape , the colour , the sound , the smell , the taste ; he counts the numbers ; he measures ...
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... strange sights , and we can easily abandon ourselves to the illusion of the Romance . But when Lemuel Gulliver , surgeon , resident at Rotherhithe , tells us of pygmies and giants , flying islands , and philosophising horses , nothing ...
... strange sights , and we can easily abandon ourselves to the illusion of the Romance . But when Lemuel Gulliver , surgeon , resident at Rotherhithe , tells us of pygmies and giants , flying islands , and philosophising horses , nothing ...
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... strange situations . The scene which passes between the poet and Farinata is justly cele- brated . Still , Farinata in the burning tomb is exactly what Farinata would have been at an auto da fe . Nothing can be more touching than the ...
... strange situations . The scene which passes between the poet and Farinata is justly cele- brated . Still , Farinata in the burning tomb is exactly what Farinata would have been at an auto da fe . Nothing can be more touching than the ...
Page 61
... strange that ordinary readers should regard the author of such a book as the most depraved and shameless of human beings . Wise men , however , have always been in- clined to look with great suspicion on the angels and dæmons of the ...
... strange that ordinary readers should regard the author of such a book as the most depraved and shameless of human beings . Wise men , however , have always been in- clined to look with great suspicion on the angels and dæmons of the ...
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