Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 7D. Appleton, 1879 |
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... truth we should rather ask how Quintus Luta- tius is . " " He , I understand , is as well as can be expected of a man with a faithless spouse and a broken head . His freed - man is most seriously hurt . Poor fellow ! he shall have half ...
... truth we should rather ask how Quintus Luta- tius is . " " He , I understand , is as well as can be expected of a man with a faithless spouse and a broken head . His freed - man is most seriously hurt . Poor fellow ! he shall have half ...
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... truth , this seems by no means improbable . They have been offering for several years the rewards which the king placed at their disposal , and have not , as far as I can learn , been able to find in their box one composition which they ...
... truth , this seems by no means improbable . They have been offering for several years the rewards which the king placed at their disposal , and have not , as far as I can learn , been able to find in their box one composition which they ...
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... truth , though a rude state of society is that in which great original works are most frequently produced , it is also * Tassoni ; Secchia Rapita , canto i . stanza 6 . that in which they are worst appreciated . This may 52 MACAULAY'S ...
... truth , though a rude state of society is that in which great original works are most frequently produced , it is also * Tassoni ; Secchia Rapita , canto i . stanza 6 . that in which they are worst appreciated . This may 52 MACAULAY'S ...
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... truth , for his parents , his children , his lands , his house , his altars . It was something that he marched forth to battle beneath the Carroccio , which had been the object of his childish ven- eration ; that his aged father looked ...
... truth , for his parents , his children , his lands , his house , his altars . It was something that he marched forth to battle beneath the Carroccio , which had been the object of his childish ven- eration ; that his aged father looked ...
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... truth what fables had never feigned , —to embody what fear had never conceived . And I will frankly confess that the vague sublimity of Milton affects me less than these reviled details of Dante . We read Milton ; and we know that we ...
... truth what fables had never feigned , —to embody what fear had never conceived . And I will frankly confess that the vague sublimity of Milton affects me less than these reviled details of Dante . We read Milton ; and we know that we ...
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