 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1866 - 556 pages
...Middle Ages, rendered for ever rhythmically visible there. There is a brevity, an abrupt transition in him. Tacitus is not briefer, more condensed ; and...smiting word, and then there is silence ; nothing more is said. This silence is more eloquent than words. With what a sharp decisive grace he snatches the... | |
 | 1900 - 704 pages
...forever! It is as an emblem of thé whole genius of Dante. There is a brevity, an abrupt précision in him : Tacitus is not briefer, more condensed; and...Dante it seems a natural condensation, spontaneous to thé man. One smiting word ; and then there is silence, nolhing more said. His silence is more éloquent... | |
 | 1901 - 830 pages
...forever! It is as an emblem of thé whole genius of Dante. There is a brevity, an abrupt précision in him : Tacitus is not briefer, more condensed; and then in Dante it seems a naturel condensation, spontaneous to thé man. One smiting word ; and then there is silence, nothing... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1899 - 304 pages
...so 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 - 1896 - 292 pages
...an emblem of the whole genius of Dante. There is a brevity, an abrupt precision in him : Tacitus l is not briefer, more condensed; and then in Dante...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... | |
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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,... 
