"Enchantingly" Quotes from Famous Books
... requires no small degree of attention to perceive that the dnouement is, in some degree, anticipated in the exposition. The history of the loves of Ferdinand and Miranda, developed in a few short scenes, is enchantingly beautiful: an affecting union of chivalrous magnanimity on the one part, and on the other of the virgin openness of a heart which, brought up far from the world on an uninhabited island, has never learned to disguise its innocent movements. The wisdom ... — Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black |