 No person seems better to have understood the secret of heightening, or of setting terrible things, if I may use the expression, in their strongest light by the force of a judicious obscurity, than Milton. His description of Death in the second book...  The Works of Edmund Burke - Seite 100von Edmund Burke - 1839Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 Seiten
...ceremonies in the bosom of the darkest woods, and in the shade of the oldest and most spreading oaks. No person seems better to have understood the secret...significant and expressive uncertainty of strokes and colouring, he has finished the portrait of the king of terrours : The other shape, If shape it might... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 522 Seiten
...ceremonies in the bosom of the darkest woods, and in the shade of the oldest and most spreading oaks. No person seems better to have understood the secret...expression, in their strongest light, by the force of a judfcious obscurity, than Milton. His description of death in the second book is admirably studied... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 324 Seiten
...oldest and most spreading oaks. No person seems better to have understood the secret of heightening or setting terrible things, if I may use the expression,...judicious obscurity, than Milton. His description of Death is admirably studied ; it is astonishing with what a significant and expressive uncertainty of strokes... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1815 - 362 Seiten
...oaks. No person seems better to have understood the secret of heightening, * Part IV. sect. 14, 15, 16. heightening, or of setting terrible things, if I may...with what a gloomy pomp, with what a significant and expressivev uncertainty of strokes and colouring, he has finished the portrait of the king of terrours... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1823 - 446 Seiten
...ceremonies in the bosom of the darkest woods, and in the shade of the oldest and most spreading oaks. No person seems better to have understood the secret of heightening, or of * Part IV. Sect- 14, 15, 16setting terrible things, if I may use the expression, in their strongest... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 Seiten
...breath, Ne ought to sec, but like a shade to ween, Unbodied, unsoul'd, unheard, unseen. Thyer. 666. No person seems better to have understood the secret...judicious obscurity, than Milton. His description of Death is admirably studied; it is astonishing with what a gloomy pomp, with what a significant and expressive... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 Seiten
...breath, Ne ought to see, but like a shade to ween, Unbodied, unsoul'd, unheard, unseen. Thyer. 666. No person seems better to have understood the secret...strongest light, by the force of a judicious obscurity, thnn Milton. His description of Death is admirably studied ; it is astonishing with what a gloomy pomp,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 510 Seiten
...darkest woods, and in the shade of the oldest and most spreading oaks. No * Part IV. Beet. 14. 15, 16. person seems better to have understood the secret of heightening, or of setting terrible things, if 1 may use the expression, in their strongest light, by the force of a judicious obscurity, than Milton.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 Seiten
...things, if I may use the expression , in the strongest light, by the force of a judicious ob acurity, than Milton. His description of death, in the second book, is admirably studied : it is asto. lushing with what a gloomy pomp, with what a significant and expressive uncertainty of strokes... | |
 | 1827 - 712 Seiten
...which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings." He represents also, that no person " seems better to have understood the secret of heightening, or of setting terrible things in their strongest light, by the force of a judicious obscurity, than Milton. His description of Death,... | |
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