 | 1814 - 258 Seiten
...scenes are not unpleasing : it is only when he atV tempts to soar, that his wings fail him. Mil-* ton, on the contrary, never loses his strength ,by rising...seems to have been borrowed from Homer : E quanto c da le stelle al basso inferno Tanto e piu in sir de la stelUta sfora, In Pope's translation of Homer,... | |
 | Homerus - 1874 - 494 Seiten
...from God and light of heaven. As from the centre thrice to th' utmost pole."—" Paradise Lost." " E quanto e da le stelle al basso inferno, Tanto e piu in su de la stellata spera." — Gier. Lib. i. 7. " Some of the epithets which Homer applies to the heavens... | |
 | Homer - 1883 - 524 Seiten
...from God and light of heaven, As from the centre thrice to th* utmost pole." — tl Paradise Lost." " E quanto e da le stelle al basso inferno, Tanto e piu in su de la stel'ata spera." — Gier. Lib. i. 7. " Some of the epithets which Homer applies to the heavens... | |
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... Goffredo's dream enforces its practical instructions with noble words on the nature of true glory. Tasso clothes his heavenly figures with all the colour and brightness that he can give them and uses especially the old religious symbols of height... 