Italy, Past and Present, Volume 2J. Chapman, 1848 |
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Adelchi Alfieri ancient Antonio Foscarini appear Austrian blood Carbonari Carmagnola Catholic century character civilised countrymen Dante despotism drama England English equally evil exile favour feelings feudal Florence foreign Foscarini Foscolo France Francesca Francesca da Rimini French genius Genoa Gioberti Giovanni Giovanni da Procida give hand heart Heaven heroes human interest Italian Italy Jesuits land less literary literature Lombard Lombard league look Manzoni Mazzini ment Milan mind modern Monza moral Napoleon native nature ness never Niccolini noble patriotism Pellico perhaps Pizzighettone poet poetry political pope popular princes race readers religious republic romance Romanzo Storico Rome Rosini Rosmonda d'Inghilterra Sanluri scene Secolo seemed Sibilla Odaleta soul Spielberg spirit Storia style thou thought tion tragedy Turin Tuscany Ugo Foscolo utter Venetian Venice views Visconti vols WALTER DE CLIFFORD Walter Scott whole word write Young Italy
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Page 440 - He has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible; crushing in pieces the hardest problems ; piercing into the most hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant: an imagination vague^ sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being ; wandering through Infinitude, and summoning before us, in its dim religious light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror : a fancy of exuberance literally unexampled...
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Page 440 - ... possessed of the kindliest feelings, and the most brilliant fantasy, turned to a high purpose that humour of which Rabelais is the great grandfather, and Sterne one of the line of ancestors, and contrasted it with an exaltation of feeling and a rhapsodical poetry which are entirely his own. Let us hope that it will complete the work begun by Mr. Carlyle's Essays, and cause Jean Paul to be really read in this country.
Page 423 - ... reads these volumes without any reference to the German must be pleased with the easy, perspicuous, idiomatic, and harmonious force of the English style. But he will be still more satisfied when, on turning to the original, he finds that the rendering is word for word, thought for thought, and sentence for sentence. In preparing so beautiful a rendering as the present, the difficulties can have been neither few nor small in the way of preserving, in various parts of the work, the exactness of...
Page 433 - Catholic to its primitive significance, in its application to this Series, and to realize the idea of Catholicism in SPIRIT. It cannot be hoped that each volume of the Series will be essentially Catholic, and not partial, in its nature, for nearly all men are partial; — the many-sided and impartial, or truly Catholic man, has ever been the rare exception to his race. Catholicity may be expected in the Series, not in every volume composing it. An endeavour will be made to present to the Public a...
Page 441 - All lovers of literature will read Mr. Emerson's new volume, as they most of them have read his former one ; and if correct taste, and sober views of life, and such ideas on the higher subjects of thought as we have been accustomed to account as truths, are sometimes outraged, we at least meet at every step with originality, imagination, and eloquence."— Inquirer.
Page 435 - With great satisfaction we welcome this first English translation of an author who occupies the most exalted position as a profound and original thinker ; as an irresistible orator in the cause of what he believed to be truth ; as a thoroughly honest and heroic man.
Page 438 - ... higher than the calculations of the understanding and the deductions of logic ; the foundation of morals on the absolute idea of right in opposition to the popular doctrine of expediency ; the exposition of a spiritual philosophy ; and the connexion of Christianity with the progress of society.
Page 425 - ... openly asserts that the religion of mere reason is not the religion to produce a practical effect on a people ; and therefore regards his own class only as one element in a better possible church.