Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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... the Mandragola is interspersed , appear to us to be the most spirited and correct of all that Machiavelli has written in metre . He seems to have entertained the same opinion ; for he has introduced some Machiavelli 21.
... the Mandragola is interspersed , appear to us to be the most spirited and correct of all that Machiavelli has written in metre . He seems to have entertained the same opinion ; for he has introduced some Machiavelli 21.
Page 22
... written more detestable in matter and manner . The narrations , the reflections , the jokes , the lamentations , are all the very worst of their respective kinds , at once trite and affected , threadbare tinsel from the 1 Nothing can be ...
... written more detestable in matter and manner . The narrations , the reflections , the jokes , the lamentations , are all the very worst of their respective kinds , at once trite and affected , threadbare tinsel from the 1 Nothing can be ...
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... written ; the remarks on men and things clever and judicious . The conversations are reported in a spirited and characteristic manner . We find our- selves introduced into the presence of the men who , during twenty eventful years ...
... written ; the remarks on men and things clever and judicious . The conversations are reported in a spirited and characteristic manner . We find our- selves introduced into the presence of the men who , during twenty eventful years ...
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... written after the fall of the Republican Government . The former was dedicated to the Young Lorenzo di Medici . This circumstance seems to › have disgusted the contemporaries of the writer far more than the doctrines which have rendered ...
... written after the fall of the Republican Government . The former was dedicated to the Young Lorenzo di Medici . This circumstance seems to › have disgusted the contemporaries of the writer far more than the doctrines which have rendered ...
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... written by command of the Pope , who , as chief of the house of Medici , was at that time sovereign of Florence . The characters of Cosmo , of Piero , and of Lorenzo , are , however , treated with a freedom and impartiality equally ...
... written by command of the Pope , who , as chief of the house of Medici , was at that time sovereign of Florence . The characters of Cosmo , of Piero , and of Lorenzo , are , however , treated with a freedom and impartiality equally ...
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