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" Peter's. It is the first Christian poem; and it opens European literature, as the Iliad did that of Greece and Rome. And, like the Iliad, it has never become out of date ; it accompanies in undiminished freshness, the literature which it began. "
Essays and Reviews - Page 1
by Richard William Church - 1854 - 570 pages
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 19

1850 - 602 pages
...Prose Translation, with the Text of the Original. By JA CARLYLE, MD London: 1849. THE 'DivinaCommedia' is one of the landmarks of history. More than a magnificent...achievements to a new limit, with a kind of awe. The beginning of all things, their bursting out from nothing, and gradual evolution into substance and...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 19

1850 - 556 pages
...power, which measure and test what it can reach to, which rise up ineffaceably and for ever as tune goes on, marking out its advance by grander divisions...achievements to a new limit, with a kind of awe. The beginning of all things, their bursting out from nothing, and gradual evolution into substance and...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 19

1850 - 626 pages
...and adopted as epochs by the consent of all who come after. It stands with the Iliad and Shaksperc's Plays, with the writings of Aristotle and Plato, with...achievements to a new limit, with a kind of awe. The beginning of all things, their bursting out from nothing, and gradual evolution into substance and...
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Dante, an essay [repr. from Essays and reviews]. To which is added a tr. of ...

Richard William Church - 1878 - 360 pages
...whole work was dropped for want of -the appreciation which the first instalment ou ht to have had. B marking out its advance by grander divisions than...poem; and it opens European literature, as the Iliad Aid that of Greece and Rome. And, like the Iliad, it has never become out of date; it accompanies in...
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The Literary World, Volumes 9-10

1878 - 638 pages
...Plato, with the Novum Organum and the Principia, with Justinian's Code, with the Parthenon and St. Peter's. It is the first Christian poem ; and it opens European literature, as the /lia, did that of Greece and Rome. And, like the Iliad, it has never become out of date ; it accompanies...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 87

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1880 - 568 pages
...with the Justinian Code and with the Parthenon and St. Peter's, as a landmark of human history, that it opens European literature as the Iliad did that of Greece and Rome, he continues : — We approach the history of such works, in which genius seems to hav& pushed its...
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The Commedia and Canzoniere ...

Dante Alighieri - 1887 - 594 pages
...Plato, with the Novum Organon and the Principia, with Justinian's Code, with the Parthenon and St. Peter's. It is the first Christian poem, and it opens...it has never become out of date; it accompanies in tindiminished freshness the literature which it began. 1 Republished in Essays and Review's, by RW...
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The Commedia and Canzoniere of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2

Dante Alighieri - 1887 - 586 pages
...Plato, with the Novum Organon and the Principia, with Justinian's Code, with the Parthenon and St. Peter's. It is the first Christian poem, and it opens...Iliad, it has never become out of date; it accompanies iu, undiminished freshness the literature which it began. "The Commedia is a novel and startling apparition...
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The Commedia and Canzoniere of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2

Dante Alighieri - 1887 - 598 pages
...Plato, with the Novum Organon and the Principia,, with Justinian's Code, with the Parthenon and St. Peter's. It is the first Christian poem, and it opens...European literature as the Iliad did that of Greece aud Rome. And, like the Iliad, it has never become out of date; it accompanies iu undiminished freshness...
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Dante, and Other Essays

Richard William Church - 1888 - 282 pages
...Plato, with the Novum Organon and the Principle!, with Justinian's Code, with the Parthenon and St. Peter's. It is the first Christian poem ; and it opens...European literature, as the Iliad did that of Greece and Home. And, like the Iliad, it has never become out of date ; it accompanies in undiminished freshness...
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