...a character closely allied to the "noble grotesque " which, as Buskin acknowledges, "in Dante—the central man of all the world, as representing in perfect...moral, and intellectual faculties all at their highest —reaches at once the most distinct and the most noble development to which it was ever brought in...

...believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations, or men, more sure than the developement, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque ; and...reaches at once the most distinct and the most noble developement to which it was ever brought in the human mind. The two other greatest men whom Italy...

...after designs by Flaxman. London : II. G. Bolm. 1857. THE person of whom Ruskin thus writes : — •" I think that the central man of all the world, as...intellectual faculties, all at their highest, is Dante ;" and whom Paul Jovius, in more measured eulogy, calls " primus Italorum," may well be considered worthy...

...Venice/' has awarded an exclusive pre-eminence to the Florentine poet ; " I think," says Mr. Buskin, " that the central man of all the world, as representing...intellectual faculties, all at their highest, is Dante." We have briefly spoken of the state of Florence during the twelfth century. Towards the first year...

...feet." — Luke x. 39. OF the author of the " Divina Commedia," a certain celebrated writer has said, " I think that the central man of all the world, as...intellectual faculties, all at their highest, is Dante." How much more sublimely true is this of HIM who while He was really man with us was no less God ; whose...

...for their saint. Perhaps no other man could have called forth such an expression as that of Ruskin, that " the central man of all the world, as representing in perfect balance the imagination, moral and intellectual faculties, all at their highest, is Dante."— The Works of Dante,...

...for their saint. Perhaps no other man could have called forth such an expression as that of Rnskin, that " the central man of all the world, as representing in perfect balance the imagination, moral and intellectual faculties, all at their highest, is Dante." — The Works of Dante,...

...forth such an expression as that of Rusk in, that " the central man of all the world, as rep resenting in perfect balance the imaginative, moral, and intellectual faculties, all at their highest, is Dante." The first remark to be made upon the writings of Dante is that they are all (with the possible exception...

...and Lamennais are touched with the same reverential enthusiasm. The imaginative Ruskin calls him " the central man of all the world, as representing...moral, and intellectual faculties, all at their highest " ; and the matter-offact Schlosser tells us that " he, who was wont to contemplate earthly life wholly...

...and Lamennais are touched with the same reverential enthusiasm. The imaginative Ruskin calls him " the central man of all the world, as representing...and intellectual faculties, all at their highest" ; and the matter-offact Schlosser tells us that " he, who was wont to contemplate earthly life wholly...