"Ocularly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... does not animate the mind enough to fulfill any one of the above conditions. Such similitudes issuing from intellectual liveliness, there is through them no steeping of intellectual perception in emotion. They may help to make the object ocularly more apparent, but they do not make the feeling a party to the movement. When this is done,—as in the examples from Canto XV. of the "Inferno," and Canto VIII. of the "Purgatorio,"—what an instantaneous vivification of ...
— Essays AEsthetical • George Calvert |
