Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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... appearance . The ex- planation might have been easy , if he had been a very weak or a very affected man . But he was evidently neither the one nor the other . His works prove , beyond all contradiction , that his understanding was ...
... appearance . The ex- planation might have been easy , if he had been a very weak or a very affected man . But he was evidently neither the one nor the other . His works prove , beyond all contradiction , that his understanding was ...
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... appeared who knew how to employ them . Early in the fourteenth century came forth the Divine Comedy , beyond comparison the greatest work of imagination which had appeared since the poems of Homer . The following generation produced ...
... appeared who knew how to employ them . Early in the fourteenth century came forth the Divine Comedy , beyond comparison the greatest work of imagination which had appeared since the poems of Homer . The following generation produced ...
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... appeared to us singularly interesting . How it was that Protestantism did so much , yet did no more , how it was that the Church of Rome , having lost a large part of Europe , not only ceased to lose , but actually regained nearly half ...
... appeared to us singularly interesting . How it was that Protestantism did so much , yet did no more , how it was that the Church of Rome , having lost a large part of Europe , not only ceased to lose , but actually regained nearly half ...
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... appeared as the inseparable associate of art and literature , of courtesy and love . The other vernacular dialects which , since the fifth century , had sprung up in the ancient provinces of the Roman empire , were still rude and ...
... appeared as the inseparable associate of art and literature , of courtesy and love . The other vernacular dialects which , since the fifth century , had sprung up in the ancient provinces of the Roman empire , were still rude and ...
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... appeared to be impregnably fortified by the love , the reverence , and the terror of mankind . A century and a half passed away ; and then came the second great rising up of the human intellect against the spiritual domina- tion of Rome ...
... appeared to be impregnably fortified by the love , the reverence , and the terror of mankind . A century and a half passed away ; and then came the second great rising up of the human intellect against the spiritual domina- tion of Rome ...
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