 | Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
...point of originality and fublimity. And with regard to the Pathetic, let this tale ftand a teftimony of his abilities : for my own part, I truly believe it was never carried to a greater heighth. It is remarkable, that Chaucer appears to have been particularly ftruck with this tale in... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1762 - 362 pages
...point of originality and fublimity. And with regard to the Pathetic, let this tale ftand a teftimony of his abilities : for my own part, I truly believe it was never carried to a greater heighth. It is remarkable, that Chaucer appears to have been particularly ftruck with this tale in... | |
 | 1785 - 610 pages
...originality and fublimity. And, with regard to the pathetic, let the talc of Vgoliao (land a teftimony of his abilities. For my own part, I truly believe it was never carried to a greater height. . . . Mitbait Angela, from a (imilarity of genius, was fond of Dante. Both were great matters in the... | |
 | 1794 - 512 pages
...of originality and fublimity. And '•with regard to the pathetic, let this tale ftand a teftimony of his abilities : for my own part, I truly believe it was never carried to a greater height. It is remarkable, that Chaucer appears to have been particularly ftruck with this tale in Dante, having... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...his book, entitled a Discourse on the Dignity of the Science of a Connoisseur. London 1719. page 30. with regard to the Pathetic, let this tale stand a...testimony of his abilities : for my own part, I truly helieve it was never carried to a greater height. It is remarkable, that Chaucer appears to have been... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...panegyrics would it have given rise to ? What shall we say, or think, of the genius able to produce it ? Perhaps the Inferno of Dante is the next composition...Iliad, in point of originality and sublimity. And with * Mr. Richardson was the first that gave an English translation in blank verse of this passage of Dante,... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 798 pages
...What shall we say or think of the genius able to produce it ? There are many of the same nature ; and perhaps the Inferno of Dante is the next composition...believe it was never carried to a greater height. It is remarkable that Chaucer appears to have been particularly struck with this tale in Dante, having... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 804 pages
...What shall we say or think of the genius able to produce it ? There are many of the same nature ; and perhaps the Inferno of Dante is the next composition...believe it was never carried to a greater height. It is remarkable that Chaucer appears to have been particularly struck with tin's tale in Dante, having... | |
 | Joseph Berington - 1846 - 492 pages
...in a strain of language to which as yet no ear had listened.3 1 Dell' Inferno, i. 2 Ibid. xxxiii. " Perhaps the Inferno of Dante is the next composition...the Iliad, in point of originality and sublimity." Essay on the Genius &c. of Pope, 260. . ' 2 See Storia della Let. Ital. vi. iii. 2 ; also tbe Observations... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1909 - 784 pages
...panegyrics would it have given rise to ? What shall we say, or think, of the genius able to produce it ? Perhaps the Inferno of Dante, is the next •"'' composition...abilities : for my own part, I truly believe it was never earned to a greater height. It is remarkable, that Chaucer appears to have been particularly struck... | |
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There are many of the same nature ; and perhaps the Inferno of Dante is the next composition to the Iliad, in point of originality and sublimity. And with regard to the pathetic, let this tale stand a testimony of his abilities : for my own part, I truly... 
