Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... 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 honour of his ...
... 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 honour of his ...
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... learning , the genius and the love ! " Le donne , e i cavalier , gli affanni , e gli agi , Che ne ' nvogliava amore e cortesia Là dove i cuor son fatti sì malvagi . " A time was at hand , when all the seven vials of the Apocalypse were ...
... learning , the genius and the love ! " Le donne , e i cavalier , gli affanni , e gli agi , Che ne ' nvogliava amore e cortesia Là dove i cuor son fatti sì malvagi . " A time was at hand , when all the seven vials of the Apocalypse were ...
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... learning would not long survive the state of things from which they had sprung , and that the great men whose talents gave lustre to that melancholy period had been formed under the influence of happier days , and would leave no ...
... learning would not long survive the state of things from which they had sprung , and that the great men whose talents gave lustre to that melancholy period had been formed under the influence of happier days , and would leave no ...
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... learning , no sagacity , affords a security against the greatest errors on subjects relating to the invisible world . Bayle and Chillingworth , two of the most sceptical of mankind , turned Catholics from sincere conviction . Johnson ...
... learning , no sagacity , affords a security against the greatest errors on subjects relating to the invisible world . Bayle and Chillingworth , two of the most sceptical of mankind , turned Catholics from sincere conviction . Johnson ...
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... learning of the Arabians . The Greek , still preserving , in the midst of political degradation , the ready wit and the inquiring spirit of his fathers , still able to read the most perfect of human compositions , still speaking the ...
... learning of the Arabians . The Greek , still preserving , in the midst of political degradation , the ready wit and the inquiring spirit of his fathers , still able to read the most perfect of human compositions , still speaking the ...
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