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Page 360
... Beautiful , and the like . The one we may call a revealer of what we are to do , the other of what we are to love . But indeed these two provinces run into one another , and cannot be disjoined . The Prophet too has his eye on what we ...
... Beautiful , and the like . The one we may call a revealer of what we are to do , the other of what we are to love . But indeed these two provinces run into one another , and cannot be disjoined . The Prophet too has his eye on what we ...
Page 361
... Beautiful includes in it the Good . ' The true Beautiful ; which , however , I have said somewhere , ' differs from the false as Heaven does from Vauxhall ! ' So much for the distinction and identity of Poet and Prophet . In ancient and ...
... Beautiful includes in it the Good . ' The true Beautiful ; which , however , I have said somewhere , ' differs from the false as Heaven does from Vauxhall ! ' So much for the distinction and identity of Poet and Prophet . In ancient and ...
Page 528
... beautiful and wonderful light excited a sense of some likewise beautiful and wonderful truth , some unknown but grand thought hovering as a swallow above . The swallows hovered and did not alight , but they were there . An inexpressible ...
... beautiful and wonderful light excited a sense of some likewise beautiful and wonderful truth , some unknown but grand thought hovering as a swallow above . The swallows hovered and did not alight , but they were there . An inexpressible ...
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Abraham Newland admirable beautiful better called character Chioggia church colour Dante delight dinner drama Elena Elizabethan Era English face fancy feel fellow French Gaiety Theatre genius gentlemen Gerado give Goldsmith gondola grace Grand Canal hand head hear heart Hernani honour humour imagination Irenæus kind lady laugh learned live look Malamocco Malebranche matter Messer mind Molière morning murder nature never Nicolas Poussin night observed Oliver Goldsmith once painted passed passion perhaps person picture play pleasure poem poet poetry poor round Sarah Bernhardt seems sense Shakespeare Sicarii Sir Roger sleep sort soul speak spirit style sweet talk taste tell theatre things thought Tintoretto tion Toad-in-the-hole told town true truth turn Venice verse Victor Hugo walk whist whole wonder words write young
References to this book
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener No preview available - 1989 |
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener Limited preview - 1989 |