 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,...  WORKS. - Sivu 86tekijä(t) Thomas Carlyle - 1840Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
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...word, sharp, incisive, like a dagger thrust — and then silence. Plutus, the giant bully, collapsed at Virgil's rebuke ; it is "as the sails sink, the mast being suddenly broken ; " or the wretched Bruneto Latini with the cotto aspetto, the "baked face," parched, and brown... | |
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