Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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Page 13
... Italian , he had not enough to read a page of Metastasio with ease ; and of the Spanish and English , he did not , as far as we are aware , understand a single word . " As the highest human compositions to which he had access were those ...
... Italian , he had not enough to read a page of Metastasio with ease ; and of the Spanish and English , he did not , as far as we are aware , understand a single word . " As the highest human compositions to which he had access were those ...
Page 32
... Italy , in Germany , and in Flanders ; and even England , after many years of profound internal quiet , saw , for the last time , hostile armies set in battle array against each other . This year is memorable in the life of Frederic ...
... Italy , in Germany , and in Flanders ; and even England , after many years of profound internal quiet , saw , for the last time , hostile armies set in battle array against each other . This year is memorable in the life of Frederic ...
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... Italy sent to the parties at Potsdam the ingenious and amiable Algarotti , and Bastiani , the most crafty , cautious , and servile of Abbés . But the greater part of the society which Frederic had assembled round him , was drawn from ...
... Italy sent to the parties at Potsdam the ingenious and amiable Algarotti , and Bastiani , the most crafty , cautious , and servile of Abbés . But the greater part of the society which Frederic had assembled round him , was drawn from ...
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... Italians say , revenge is a pleasure for the gods . My philosophy is worn out by suffer- ing . I am no saint , like those of whom we read in the legends ; and I will own that I should die con- tent if only I could first inflict a ...
... Italians say , revenge is a pleasure for the gods . My philosophy is worn out by suffer- ing . I am no saint , like those of whom we read in the legends ; and I will own that I should die con- tent if only I could first inflict a ...
Page 107
... Italian singers who visited England regarded him as the dispenser of fame in their art , and exerted them- selves to obtain his suffrage . Pachierotti became his intimate friend . The rapacious Agujari , who sang for nobody else under ...
... Italian singers who visited England regarded him as the dispenser of fame in their art , and exerted them- selves to obtain his suffrage . Pachierotti became his intimate friend . The rapacious Agujari , who sang for nobody else under ...
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