Essays and Dialogues of Giacomo LeopardiTrübner, 1882 - 216 pages |
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... true spirit of serious and faithful research . " - Westminster Review . " This work remains a monument of his industry , his high literary power , his clear intellect , and his resolute desire to arrive at the truth . In its present ...
... true spirit of serious and faithful research . " - Westminster Review . " This work remains a monument of his industry , his high literary power , his clear intellect , and his resolute desire to arrive at the truth . In its present ...
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... true proportion which can alone be gained by penetration and clear insight into motive and purposes . We can say that a clearer or more compact piece of biographic criticism has not been produced in England for many a day ...
... true proportion which can alone be gained by penetration and clear insight into motive and purposes . We can say that a clearer or more compact piece of biographic criticism has not been produced in England for many a day ...
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... true Church is the only way to combat superstition . " Shortly afterwards , increasing knowledge , which Goethe has called " the antipodes of faith , " enabled him to perceive that Roman Catholicism , the antidote which he then ...
... true Church is the only way to combat superstition . " Shortly afterwards , increasing knowledge , which Goethe has called " the antipodes of faith , " enabled him to perceive that Roman Catholicism , the antidote which he then ...
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... Paradise . According to them , the sum of human wisdom , indeed the only true science of man , is antiquity . Hitherto I have not encountered a lettered Roman who understands the term literature as BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH . xix.
... Paradise . According to them , the sum of human wisdom , indeed the only true science of man , is antiquity . Hitherto I have not encountered a lettered Roman who understands the term literature as BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH . xix.
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... true scholar ) , " ( 16th December 1822. ) he would abandon literature once for all . But it was only during moments of depression that such words as these escaped him . He loved study for its own sake ; fame was , after all , but a ...
... true scholar ) , " ( 16th December 1822. ) he would abandon literature once for all . But it was only during moments of depression that such words as these escaped him . He loved study for its own sake ; fame was , after all , but a ...
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