The style of Dante is, if not his highest, perhaps his most peculiar excellence. I know nothing with which it can be compared. The noblest models of Greek composition must yield to it. His words are the fewest and the best which it is possible to use.... Knight's Quarterly Magazine - 221 ページ1824全文表示 - この書籍について
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - 2005 - 553 ページ
...darkness is upon the face of them. Yet how many men of genius have panegyrised and imitated them 1 The style of Dante is, if not his highest, perhaps...amplification would only injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind. Yet there... | |
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