Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... Rome has pronounced his works accursed things . Nor have our own countrymen been backward in testifying their opinion of his merits . Out of his surname they have VOL . II . B The coined an epithet for a knave , and out of MACHIAVELLI.
... Rome has pronounced his works accursed things . Nor have our own countrymen been backward in testifying their opinion of his merits . Out of his surname they have VOL . II . B The coined an epithet for a knave , and out of MACHIAVELLI.
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... Rome , protected by the sacred character of her Pontiffs , enjoyed at least comparative security and repose Even in those regions where the sanguinary Lombards had fixed their monarchy , there was incomparably more of wealth , of ...
... Rome , protected by the sacred character of her Pontiffs , enjoyed at least comparative security and repose Even in those regions where the sanguinary Lombards had fixed their monarchy , there was incomparably more of wealth , of ...
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... Rome , which divided his own heart with a frigid mistress and a more frigid Muse . Boccaccio turned their attention to the more sublime and graceful models of Greece . From this time , the admiration of learning and genius became almost ...
... Rome , which divided his own heart with a frigid mistress and a more frigid Muse . Boccaccio turned their attention to the more sublime and graceful models of Greece . From this time , the admiration of learning and genius became almost ...
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... Rome were supplied during its earlier wars . The season during which the fields did not require the presence of the cultivators sufficed for a short inroad and a battle . These operations , too frequently interrupted to produce decisive ...
... Rome were supplied during its earlier wars . The season during which the fields did not require the presence of the cultivators sufficed for a short inroad and a battle . These operations , too frequently interrupted to produce decisive ...
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... Rome.1 The Clizia is an imitation of the Casina of Plautus , which is itself an imitation of the lost kλnpovμévol of Diphilus . Plautus was , unquestionably , one of the best Latin writers ; but the Casina is by no means one of his best ...
... Rome.1 The Clizia is an imitation of the Casina of Plautus , which is itself an imitation of the lost kλnpovμévol of Diphilus . Plautus was , unquestionably , one of the best Latin writers ; but the Casina is by no means one of his best ...
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