 | England - 1837 - 886 pages
...predecessors. He has not the force, simplicity, and truth to nature, of Homer, the exquisite skill and sustained majesty of Virgil, nor the originality...images and sentiments, but in purity of taste, in graco of language, and harmony of versification." — P. 426. The chivalric lay of Ariosto was chapters;... | |
 | 1837 - 612 pages
...observed by his countrymen. They justly blame also his inobservance of propriety, his hyperbolical extravagance, his harsh metaphors, his affected thoughts....grace of language, and harmony of versification.'— pp. 425, 426. Italy had thus surrendered itself to the spell of this new enchanter. The poetry of Ariosto... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1837 - 602 pages
...countrymen. They justly blame also his inobservance of propriety, his hyperbolical extravagance, big harsh metaphors, his affected thoughts. These are...grace of language, and harmony of versification.' — pp. 425, 426. Italy had thus surrendered itself to the spell of this new enchanter. The poetry... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1837 - 606 pages
...observed by his countrymen. They justly blame also his inobservance of propriety, his hyperbolical extravagance, his harsh metaphors, his affected thoughts....of invention, or variety of images and sentiments, hut in purity of taste, in grace of language, and harmony of versification.'— pp. 425, 426. Italy... | |
 | Scotland - 1837 - 898 pages
...predecessors. He has not the force, simplicity, and truth to nature, of Homer, the exquisite •kill and sustained majesty of Virgil, nor the originality and boldness of Dante. The most obvious parallel i> Ovid, whose Metamorphose*, however, are far excelled by the Orlando Furioso, not in fertility of... | |
 | English periodicals - 1838 - 762 pages
...and purity of idiom than of character and form in a work of art. " The Orlando Furioso," he says, " as a great single poem, has been very rarely surpassed...grace of language, and harmony of versification." Fertility of invention was the characteristic of neither Ovid nor Ariosto, and hardly entered into... | |
 | English periodicals - 1838 - 760 pages
..." as a great single poem, has been very rarely surpassed in the living records of poetry. He roust yield to three, and only three, of his predecessors....grace of language, and harmony of versification." Fertility of invention was the characteristic of neither Ovid nor Ariosto, and hardly entered into... | |
 | 1839 - 394 pages
...Europe, " as a single great poem, has been very rarely surpassed in the living records of poetry. Ariosto must yield to three, and only three, of his predecessors....grace of language, and harmony of versification." The incongruous elements of devotion and ribaldry, caricature and tragic emotion, which had been left... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 952 pages
...surpassed in the living records of poetry. He must yield to three, and only three, of his predecessors. Ho has not the force, simplicity, and truth to nature...exquisite style and sustained majesty of Virgil, nor the sriginality and boldness of Dante." (See HARRINGTON, "Life of Ariosto," 1634; GIIINIORE, "La Vita di... | |
 | Joseph Thomas - Biography - 1901 - 1344 pages
...the ancients, they maintain an equal strife with their models, and occasionally surpass them. . . . The ' Orlando Furioso,' as a great single poem, has...Virgil, nor the originality and boldness of Dante," (" Introduction to the Literature of Europe.") See GAROFALO, "Vita di ArioMo;" MAZZUCHKLU, "Scritton... | |
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The Orlando Furioso, as a great single poem, has been very rarely surpassed in the living records of poetry. He must yield to three, and only three, of his predecessors. He has not the force, simplicity, and truth to nature of Homer, the exquisite style... 
