 The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante as the Hieroglyphics of Egypt differed from the picture-writing of Mexico. The images which Dante employs speak for themselves ; they stand simply for what they are. Those of Milton have a signification...  The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries - Page 319de James Joseph Walsh - 1907 - 490 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...S. JOHNSON. The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante as the hieroglyphics of Egypt differed from the picture-writing of Mexico. The images which...which is often discernible only to the initiated. Their value depends less on what they directly represent than on what they remotely suggest. However... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 112 pages
...literature. The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante, as the hieroglyphics of Egypt differed from the picture-writing of Mexico. The images which...which is often discernible only to the initiated. Their value depends less on what they directly represent than on what they remotely suggest. However... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 898 pages
...Dante, as the hieroglyphics of Egypt differed from the picturewritiug of Mexico. The images which Danto employs speak for themselves ; they stand simply for...which is often discernible only to the initiated. Their value depends less on what they directly represent than on what they remotely suggest. However... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...S. JOHNSON. The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante as the hieroglyphics of E^ypt differed from the picture-writing of Mexico. The images which...which is often discernible only to the initiated. Their value depends less on what they directly represent than on what they remotely suggest. However... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 640 pages
...literature. The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante, as the hieroglyphics of Egypt differed from the picture-writing of Mexico. The images which...which is often discernible only to the initiated. Their value depends less on what they directly represent than on what they remotely suggest. However... | |
 | 1910 - 756 pages
...of Milton differs from that of Dante as the hieroglyphs of Egypt differed from the picture writing of Mexico. The images which Dante employs speak for...which is often discernible only to the initiated." No less than forty paragraphs are given to a discussion of Milton as a man and as a statesman. We admire... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...literature. The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante as the hieroglyphics of Egypt differed l {/ {/ {/ Their value depends less on what they directly represent than on what they remotely suggest. However... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1883 - 1254 pages
...Egypt differed from the picturewriting of Mexico. The images which Dante employs speak for themselves j they stand simply for what they are. Those of Milton have a signiiication which is often discernible only to the initiated. Their value depends less on what they... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays], Milton.), Alexander Mackie - 1884 - 216 pages
...literature. 5 The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante as the hieroglyphics * of Egypt differed from the picturewriting of Mexico. The images which...they are. Those of Milton have a signification which 10 is often discernible only to the initiated. Their value depends less on what they directly represent... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 pages
...opinion respecting our own great poet than by contrasting him with the father of Tuscan literature. The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante as...which is often discernible only to the initiated. Their value depends less on what they directly represent than on what they remotely suggest. However... | |
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