Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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... Italy . But he did not feel for it the same veneration which he entertained for the remains of Athenian and Roman poetry , consecrated by so many lofty and endearing recollections . The faults , moreover , of his Italian predecessors ...
... Italy . But he did not feel for it the same veneration which he entertained for the remains of Athenian and Roman poetry , consecrated by so many lofty and endearing recollections . The faults , moreover , of his Italian predecessors ...
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... perhaps most strongly marked in those parts of his works which treat of his personal feelings , are distinguishable in every page , and impart to all his writings , prose VOL . I. C and poetry , English , Latin , and Italian ,
... perhaps most strongly marked in those parts of his works which treat of his personal feelings , are distinguishable in every page , and impart to all his writings , prose VOL . I. C and poetry , English , Latin , and Italian ,
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Thomas Babington Macaulay. and poetry , English , Latin , and Italian , a strong family likeness . His public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high and of an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. and poetry , English , Latin , and Italian , a strong family likeness . His public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high and of an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of the ...
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... Italy , to read without horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli . Such a display of wickedness , naked yet not ashamed , such cool , judicious , scientific atrocity ...
... Italy , to read without horror and amazement the celebrated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli . Such a display of wickedness , naked yet not ashamed , such cool , judicious , scientific atrocity ...
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... Italy . The earliest assailant , as far as we are aware , was a countryman of our own , Cardinal Pole . The author of the Anti - Machiavelli was a French Protestant . As It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Italians ...
... Italy . The earliest assailant , as far as we are aware , was a countryman of our own , Cardinal Pole . The author of the Anti - Machiavelli was a French Protestant . As It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Italians ...
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