 State ; each felt the quarrels of his age to be " the business of posterity," and left his warnings to ring in the ears of a later time. The lives of both were failures. " On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues...  Time - Page 1521889Full view - About this book
 | William Cochrane - Annihilationism - 1886 - 568 pages
...Milton blind. 'On evil days, though fallen, and evil tongues,' they gathered the concentrated experience of their lives into one immortal work, the quintessence...their hopes, their knowledge, and their sufferings. " Looked at outwardly, the life of Dante seems to have been an utter and disastrous failure. What its... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - Authors, American - 1886 - 448 pages
...failures. 'On evil days though fallen and evil tongues,' they gathered the concentrated experience of their lives into one immortal •work, the quintessence of their hopes, their knowledge and their Bufferings. But Dante is something more than this. Milton's voice is grown faint tons — we have passed... | |
 | Frank McAlpine - Authors, American - 1888 - 428 pages
...were failures. <0n evil days though fallen and evil tongues/ they gathered the concentrated experience of their lives into one immortal work, the quintessence...Dante is something more than this. Milton's voice is grown faint to us — we have passed into other modes of expression and of thought. But if we had... | |
 | Oscar Browning - 1891 - 122 pages
...failures. " On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues," they gathered the concentrated experience of their lives into one immortal work, the quintessence...Dante is something more than this. Milton's voice is grown faint to us — we have passed into other modes of expression and of thought. But if we had... | |
 | Religions - 1892 - 850 pages
...absorbing passion. The middle life of each was spent in active controversy; each lent his sen-ices to the State; each felt the quarrels of his age to...passed into other modes of experience and of thought. we had to select two names in literature of men who are still exercising dr full influence on mankind,... | |
 | James Joseph Walsh - Civilization - 1907 - 660 pages
...failures. -On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues,' they gathered the concentrated experience of their lives into one immortal work, the quintessence...Dante is something more than this. Milton's voice is grown faint to us — we have passed into other modes of expression and of thought." The comparison... | |
 | Religions - 1911 - 844 pages
...The labours which made Dante lean made Milton blind. The " Doricke sweetnesse " of the English poet is not absent from the tender pages of the Vita Nuova....select two names in literature of men who are still exercjsinf their full influence on mankind, and whose teaching is thus developing new sides to coming... | |
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