"Distinguishably" Quotes from Famous Books
... plenitude of brilliant and powerful description! Every verse, every half verse, adds a characterizing circumstance, a vivifying image. And what an integrity and self-completeness has the daring and large conception of either martial king! And how distinguishably the two stand apart from each other! But above all, what a sudden and rich addition to our stock of heroic poetical portraitures! Here is no imitation. Neither Lycurge nor Emetrius is any where in poetry but here. Not in the Iliad-not in the AEneid. You cannot ... — Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 • Various |