 | Torquato Tasso - 1764 - 322 Seiten
...chanters ftiook and alarmed all nature. We «* feel this difference very fenfibly in reading the " antient and modern poets. You would not " compare the Canidia of Horace with the Witches " of Macbeth : and what are Virgil's myrtles drop" ping blood, to Taffos, enchanted foreft ?" Letters... | |
 | Torquato Tasso - 1802 - 406 Seiten
...; but the Gothic enchanters fhook " and alarmed all nature. We feel this difference very " fenfibly in reading the ancient and modern poets. You " would...not compare the Canidia of Horace with the " witches of Macbeth: and what are Virgil's myrtles " dropping blood, to Taflb's enchanted foreft ?" Letters... | |
 | Torquato Tasso - 1810 - 402 Seiten
...the horrors of the Gothic were above mea" sure striking and terrible. The mummeries of the Pagan w priests were childish ; but the Gothic enchanters...ancient and modern poets. You " would not compare the Cauidia of Horace with the " witches of Macbeth: and what are Virgil's, myrtles " dropping blood, to... | |
 | Matteo Maria Boiardo - 1812 - 352 Seiten
...of witchcraft and incantation, the horrors of the Gothic were, above measure, striking and terrible. The mummeries of the Pagan priests were childish ;...the Gothic enchanters shook and alarmed all nature. Shakspeare, with a terrible sublime, gives ap idea of the rough magic, as he calls it, of fairy enchantment.... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 478 Seiten
...mummeries of the pagan priests were childish, but the Gothic enchanters shook and alarmed all nature. . . You would not compare the Canidia of Horace with the...myrtles, dropping blood, to Tasso's enchanted forest? . . . The fancies of our modern bards are not only more gallant, but . . . more sublime, more terrible,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 496 Seiten
...mummeries of the pagan priests were childish, but the Gothic enchanters shook and alarmed all nature. . . You would not compare the Canidia of Horace with the...what are Virgil's myrtles, dropping blood, to Tasso's en-, chanted forest? . . . The fancies of our modern ) bards are not only more gallant, but . . . more... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 480 Seiten
...of witchcraft and incantation, the horrors of the Gothic were above measure striking and terrible. The mummeries of the pagan priests were childish,...the Gothic enchanters shook and alarmed all nature. . . You would not compare the Canidia of Horace with the witches in ' Macbeth.' And what are Virgil's... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 Seiten
...of witchcraft and incantation, the horrors of the Gothic were above measure striking and terrible. The mummeries of the pagan priests were childish,...not compare the Canidia of Horace with the Witches of Macbeth. And what are Virgil's myrtles dropping blood, to Tasso's enchanted forest? . . . Without... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 Seiten
...of witchcraft and incantation, the horrors of the Gothic were above measure striking and terrible. The mummeries of the pagan priests were childish,...not compare the Canidia of Horace with the Witches of Macbeth. And what are Virgil's myrtles dropping blood, to Tasso's enchanted forest? . . . Without... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 Seiten
...mummeries of the pagan priests were childish, but the Gothic-£achanj£rsL_ahQQk_and alarmed alljiature. We feel this difference very sensibly, in reading...not compare the Canidia of Horace with the Witches of Macbeth. And what are Virgil's myrtles dropping blood, to Tasso's enchanted forest? . . . Without... | |
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And then, for the more solemn fancies of witchcraft and incantation, the horrors of the Gothic were above measure striking and terrible. The mummeries of the pagan priests were childish, but the Gothic enchanters shook and alarmed all nature. 
