Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... poets and rhetoricians , who mistake the splendour of a court for the happiness of a people . Fortunately , John Villani has given us an ample and precise account of the state of Florence in the early part of the fourteenth century ...
... poets and rhetoricians , who mistake the splendour of a court for the happiness of a people . Fortunately , John Villani has given us an ample and precise account of the state of Florence in the early part of the fourteenth century ...
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... poet appeared who knew how to employ them . Early in the fourteenth century came forth the Divine Comedy , beyond comparison the greatest work of imagination which had appeared since the poems of Homer . The following generation ...
... poet appeared who knew how to employ them . Early in the fourteenth century came forth the Divine Comedy , beyond comparison the greatest work of imagination which had appeared since the poems of Homer . The following generation ...
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... poet he is not entitled to a high place ; but his comedies deserve attention . The Mandragola , in particular , is superior to the best of Goldoni , and inferior only to the best of Molière . It is the work of a man who , if he had ...
... poet he is not entitled to a high place ; but his comedies deserve attention . The Mandragola , in particular , is superior to the best of Goldoni , and inferior only to the best of Molière . It is the work of a man who , if he had ...
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... poet was to be hung on the willows of Arno , and the right hand of the painter to forget its cunning . Yet a discerning eye might even then have seen that genius and learning would not long survive the state of things from which they ...
... poet was to be hung on the willows of Arno , and the right hand of the painter to forget its cunning . Yet a discerning eye might even then have seen that genius and learning would not long survive the state of things from which they ...
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... poet , " was Christ , in the person of his vicar , a second time seized by ruffians , a second time mocked , a second time drenched with the vinegar and the gall . " The seat of the Papal court was carried beyond the Alps , and the ...
... poet , " was Christ , in the person of his vicar , a second time seized by ruffians , a second time mocked , a second time drenched with the vinegar and the gall . " The seat of the Papal court was carried beyond the Alps , and the ...
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