 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 544 pages
...there is little resemblance to any antecedent production. Compared with the JEneid, adds Mr. Roscoe, " it is a piece of grand Gothic architecture at the side of a beautiful Roman temple," on which an anonymous wricer remarks that this Gothic grandeur miserably degenerates in the adjoining... | |
 | Books - 1835 - 618 pages
...but in the rest of his poem there is little resemblance to any precedent. Compared with the /Eniad, it is a piece of grand gothic architecture at the side of a beautiful Roman temple. The other two of the illustrious triumvirate were not imitators, but originals also, each choosing... | |
 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...into its cage , and once more laid itself down to rest. (Bulw. Pomp.) Though Boccaccio and Petrarca followed Dante, they did not employ themselves in...ground which he had broken up, but chose each for himself a new and an untried field , and reaped a harvest not less abundant. (Roscoe's life of Lorenzo... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 pages
...itself down to rest." " I to seize him, hut he glided from my grasp." " Though Boccaccio and Petrarca followed Dante, they did not employ themselves in cultivating the ground which he had hroken up, hut chose each for himself an un field, and reaped a harvest not loss ahundant." " A natural... | |
 | William Roscoe - 1883 - 638 pages
...JEneas in view. " Virgil is the guide of Dante through these regions of horror.'" In the rest of his poem, there is little resemblance to any antecedent...temple. Dante was immediately succeeded by Boccaccio and byPetrarca, not as imitators, but as originals in the different branches to which their talents led... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - Comparative literature - 1909 - 774 pages
...there is little resemblance to any antecedent production. Compared with the Aeneid, adds Mr. Roscoe, " it is a piece of grand Gothic architecture at the side of a beautiful Roman temple," on which an anonymous writer2 remarks that this Gothic grandeur miserably degenerates in the adjoining... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - Comparative literature - 1909 - 776 pages
...there is little resemblance to any antecedent production. Compared with the Aeneid, adds Mr. Roscoe, " it is a piece of grand Gothic architecture at the side of a beautiful Roman temple," on which an anonymous writer* remarks that this Gothic grandeur miserably degenerates in the adjoining... | |
 | Paget Jackson Toynbee - Comparative literature - 1909 - 784 pages
...his letter to Bettinelli (see above, pp. 210-11).] J Compared with the Aeneid, if the Inferno be ' a piece of grand Gothic architecture at the side of a beautiful Roman temple, we must confess that this Gothic grandeur miserably degenerates in the adjoining edifices. . . . With... | |
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Aeneas in view, but in the rest of his poem there is little resemblance to any antecedent production. Compared with the Aeneid, adds Mr. Roscoe, " it is a piece of grand Gothic architecture at the side of a beautiful Roman temple... 