 | Thomas Carlyle - 1888 - 202 pages
...vivid, so distinct, visible at once and forever ! It is as an emblem of the whole genius of Dante. There is a brevity, an abrupt precision in him : Tacitus...more eloquent than words. It is strange with what a sharp decisive grace he snatches the true likeness of a matter : cuts into the matter as with a pen... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1888 - 192 pages
...and forever ! It is an emblem of the whole genius of Dante. There is a brevity, an abrupt precison in him: Tacitus is not briefer, more condensed; and...more eloquent than words. It is strange with what a sharp decisive grace he snatches the true likeness of a matter: cuts into the matter as with a pen... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1890 - 226 pages
...condenses multum in parvo, even at the expense of clearness. He writes as the lightning writes on rocks. " One smiting word, and then there is silence, nothing...more said. His silence is more eloquent than words." (Th. Carlyle.)1 Altogether, the form of the poem as much as the contents reveals the highest order... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1890 - 476 pages
...condenses mullum in parvo, even at the expense of clearness. He writes as the lightning writes on rocks. "One smiting word, and then there is silence, nothing...more said. His silence is more eloquent than words." (Th. Carlyle.)1 Altogether, the form of the poem as much as the contents reveals the highest order... | |
 | Will Hubbard- Kernan - 1892 - 282 pages
...of him is pretty sure to have been. . . Perhaps one would say, intensity, with the much that deThere is a brevity, an abrupt precision, in him. Tacitus...condensation, spontaneous to the man. One smiting word, and there is darkness. Strange with what a sharp, decisive grace he snatches the true likeness of a matter:... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 pages
...so vivid, so distinct, visible at once and forever ! It is an emblem of the whole genius of Dante. There is a brevity, an abrupt precision in him. Tacitus...more eloquent than words. It is strange with what a sharp decisive grace he snatches the true likeness of a matter : cuts into the matter as with a pen... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 286 pages
...so vivid, so distinct, visible at once and forever ! It is an emblem of the whole genius of Dante. There is a brevity, an abrupt precision in him. Tacitus...more eloquent than words. It is strange with what a sharp decisive grace he snatches the true likeness of a matter : cuts into the matter as with a pen... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1893 - 844 pages
...so vivid, so distinct, visible at once and for ever ! It is an emblem of the whole genius of Dante. There is a brevity, an abrupt precision in him : Tacitus...more eloquent than words. It is strange with what a sharp, decisive grace he snatches the true likeness of a matter ; cuts into the matter as with a... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1894 - 300 pages
...and forever ! It is as an emblem of the whole genius of Dante. There is a brevity, an abrupt decision in him : Tacitus is not briefer, more condensed ;...more eloquent than words. It is strange with what a sharp decisive grace he snatches the true likeness of a matter ; cuts into the matter as with a pen... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1895 - 452 pages
...so vivid, so distinct, visible at once and forever I It is an emblem of the whole genius of Dante. There is a brevity, an abrupt precision in him : Tacitus is not briefer, more condensed ; and then iii Dante it seems a natural condensation, spontaneous to the man. One smiting word ; and then there... | |
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It is as an emblem of the whole genius of Dante. There is a brevity, an abrupt precision in him: Tacitus is not briefer, more condensed; and then in Dante it seems a natural condensation, spontaneous to the man. One smiting word; and then there is silence,... 
