Essays and Dialogues of Giacomo LeopardiTrübner, 1882 - 216 pages |
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... compared with Dante ; as a philosopher he takes high rank among the greatest and most original men of modern times . One of his biographers ( Dovari : " Studio di G. Leopardi , " Ancona , 1877 ) has termed him " the greatest philosopher ...
... compared with Dante ; as a philosopher he takes high rank among the greatest and most original men of modern times . One of his biographers ( Dovari : " Studio di G. Leopardi , " Ancona , 1877 ) has termed him " the greatest philosopher ...
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... compared to the discovery of some bit of copper or stone of the time of Mark Antony or Agrippa . The best of it is that one cannot find a single Roman who really knows Latin or Greek ; without a perfect acquaintance with which languages ...
... compared to the discovery of some bit of copper or stone of the time of Mark Antony or Agrippa . The best of it is that one cannot find a single Roman who really knows Latin or Greek ; without a perfect acquaintance with which languages ...
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... comparable with that of the dream image . No thought like ours can dwell beneath those narrow brows . Vain is the hope that man forges in the fire of those sparkling eyes . He errs in seeking profound and lofty thoughts in one who is by ...
... comparable with that of the dream image . No thought like ours can dwell beneath those narrow brows . Vain is the hope that man forges in the fire of those sparkling eyes . He errs in seeking profound and lofty thoughts in one who is by ...
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... compared with Byron's " Don Juan , " from which , however , it totally differs in its intrinsic character . It abounds in beauties of description , sentiment , and expression , and well deserves to be considered his chef d'œuvre ...
... compared with Byron's " Don Juan , " from which , however , it totally differs in its intrinsic character . It abounds in beauties of description , sentiment , and expression , and well deserves to be considered his chef d'œuvre ...
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... compared them to the writing of Machiavelli . Giordani , with his usual tendency to extravagance , gives his friend the following pom- pous panegyric : - " His style possesses the con- ciseness of Speroni , the grandiloquence of Tasso ...
... compared them to the writing of Machiavelli . Giordani , with his usual tendency to extravagance , gives his friend the following pom- pous panegyric : - " His style possesses the con- ciseness of Speroni , the grandiloquence of Tasso ...
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