Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... admiration . The moral sensibility of the writer seems at once to be morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two characters altogether dissimilar are united in him . They are not merely joined , but interwoven . They are the warp and the ...
... admiration . The moral sensibility of the writer seems at once to be morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two characters altogether dissimilar are united in him . They are not merely joined , but interwoven . They are the warp and the ...
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... admiration of learning and genius became almost an idolatry among the people of Italy . Kings and republics , cardinals and doges , vied with each other in honouring and flattering Petrarch . Embassies from rival States solicited the ...
... admiration of learning and genius became almost an idolatry among the people of Italy . Kings and republics , cardinals and doges , vied with each other in honouring and flattering Petrarch . Embassies from rival States solicited the ...
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... admirable subject for the fierce sarcasms of Juvenal . an Its The citizen of an Italian commonwealth was the Greek of the time of Juvenal and the Greek of the time of Pericles , joined in one . Like the former , he was timid and pliable ...
... admirable subject for the fierce sarcasms of Juvenal . an Its The citizen of an Italian commonwealth was the Greek of the time of Juvenal and the Greek of the time of Pericles , joined in one . Like the former , he was timid and pliable ...
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... admirable dialogue of Hume , might have drawn illustrations of his theory as striking as any of those with which Fourli furnished him . These are not , we well know , the lessons which historians are generally most care- ful to teach ...
... admirable dialogue of Hume , might have drawn illustrations of his theory as striking as any of those with which Fourli furnished him . These are not , we well know , the lessons which historians are generally most care- ful to teach ...
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... admirable language , “ from the purpose of playing , whose end , both at the first and now , was , and is , to hold , as it were , the mirror up to Nature . " This digression will enable our readers to understand what we mean when we ...
... admirable language , “ from the purpose of playing , whose end , both at the first and now , was , and is , to hold , as it were , the mirror up to Nature . " This digression will enable our readers to understand what we mean when we ...
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