The book On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History was written by author Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 Here you can read free online of On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History a good or bad book?
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The language, his simple terza rima^ doubtless helped him in this. One reads along naturally with a sort of lilt. But I add, that it could not be otherwise; for the essence and 148 THE HERO AS POET. material of the work eure themselves rhythmic. Its depth, and rapt passion and sincerity, makes it musical; — go deep enough, there is music everywhere, A true inward symmetry, what, one calls an architectural harmony, reigns in it, proportionates it all : architectural ; which also partakes of the ...character of music. The three kingdoms. Inferno, Purgatario, Paradiso, look out on one another like compartments of a great, edifice; a great supernatural world-cathedral, piled up there, stem, solemn, awful; Dante's World of Souls ! It is, at bottom, the sincerest of all Poems ; sincerity, here too, we find to be the measure of worth. It came deep out of the author's heart of hearts ; and it goes deep, and through long generations, into ours. The people of Verona, when they saw him on the streets, used to say, " Eccovi V uom cK i stato alV In^ Jerno, See, there is the man that was in Hell !
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