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" The style of Dante is, if not his highest, perhaps his most peculiar excellence. I know nothing with which it can be compared. The noblest models of Greek composition must yield to it. His words are the fewest and the best which it is possible to use.... "
The Trilogy: On the Catholicism of Dante. On the doctrine of purgatory and ... - Page xxviii
by Dante Alighieri - 1862
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Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Volume 2

English fiction - 1824 - 488 pages
...them! The style of Dante is, if not his highest, perhaps, his most peculiar excellence. I know nothing with which it can be. compared. The noblest models...injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind. Yet there is probably no writer equally...
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Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Volume 2

English fiction - 1824 - 486 pages
...them! The style of Dante is, if not his highest, perhaps, his most peculiar excellence. I know nothing with which it can be compared. The noblest models...amplification would only injure the effect. There is profoably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind. Yet there...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1084 pages
...them ! The style of Dante is, if not his highest, perhaps his most peculiar excellence. I know nothing with which it can be compared. The noblest models...injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind. Yet there is probably no writer equally...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1860 - 374 pages
...them ! The style of Dante is, if not his highest, perhaps his most peculiar excellence. I know nothing with which it can be compared. The noblest models...injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind. Yet there is probably no writer equally...
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The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay: In Two Volumes...

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1860 - 424 pages
...them! The style of Dante is, if not his highest, perhaps his most peculiar excellence. I know nothing with which it can be compared. The noblest models...which it is possible to use. The first expression in wnich he clothes his thoughts is always so energetic and comprehensive that amplification would only...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 6

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 372 pages
...them ! The style of Dante is, if not his highest, perhaps his most peculiar excellence. I know nothing with which it can be compared. The noblest models...injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind. Yet there is probably no writer equally...
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The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 7

Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 730 pages
...them ! The style of Dante is, if not his highest, perhaps his most peculiar excellence. I know nothing with which it can be compared. The noblest models...injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind. Yet there is probably no writer equally...
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The divine comedy, tr. by H.W. Longfellow, Volume 2

Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 264 pages
...them ! The style of Dante is, if not his highest, perhaps his most peculiar excellence. I know nothing with which it can be compared. The noblest models...injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind. Yet there is probably no writer equally...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2

Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 432 pages
...them ! The style of Dante is, if not his highest, perhaps his most peculiar excellence. I know nothing with which it can be compared. The noblest models...injure the effect. There is probably no writer in any language who has presented so many strong pictures to the mind. Yet there is probably no writer equally...
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 1

Dante Alighieri - Poetry - 1867 - 780 pages
...them ! The style of Dante is, if not his highest, perhaps his most peculiar excellence. I know nothing with which it can be compared. The noblest models...it. His words are the fewest and the best which it U possible to use. The first expression in which he clothes his thoughts is always so energetic and...
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