Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 7D. Appleton, 1879 |
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Page 35
... passion in the streets . If Aristophanes were to see you , you would infallibly be in a comedy next spring . CALLIDEMUS . You have more reason to fear Aristophanes than any fool living . Oh , that he could but hear you trying to imitate ...
... passion in the streets . If Aristophanes were to see you , you would infallibly be in a comedy next spring . CALLIDEMUS . You have more reason to fear Aristophanes than any fool living . Oh , that he could but hear you trying to imitate ...
Page 51
... passion in Tuscan or Provençal rhymes . The vulgar might occasionally be edified by a pious allegory in the popular jargon . But no writer had conceived it possible that the dialect of peasants and market - women should possess ...
... passion in Tuscan or Provençal rhymes . The vulgar might occasionally be edified by a pious allegory in the popular jargon . But no writer had conceived it possible that the dialect of peasants and market - women should possess ...
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... passion for frivolous and tawdry ornament ; and , above all , by an extreme feebleness and diffuseness of style . Tasso , Ma * Sismondi ; Littérature du Midi de l'Europe . rino , Guarini , Metastasio , and a crowd of 54 MACAULAY'S ...
... passion for frivolous and tawdry ornament ; and , above all , by an extreme feebleness and diffuseness of style . Tasso , Ma * Sismondi ; Littérature du Midi de l'Europe . rino , Guarini , Metastasio , and a crowd of 54 MACAULAY'S ...
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... passions and miseries of the suffering spirits he feels a strong sympathy . But among the beatified he ap- pears as one who has nothing in common with them , - as one who is incapable of comprehending , not only the degree , but the ...
... passions and miseries of the suffering spirits he feels a strong sympathy . But among the beatified he ap- pears as one who has nothing in common with them , - as one who is incapable of comprehending , not only the degree , but the ...
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... on the sterner and darker passions that he delights to dwell . All love , excepting the half mystic passion which he still * Inferno , canto i . Shabeehme felt for his buried Beatrice , had palled on 66 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... on the sterner and darker passions that he delights to dwell . All love , excepting the half mystic passion which he still * Inferno , canto i . Shabeehme felt for his buried Beatrice , had palled on 66 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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