Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... Italy 1 v . Battle of Life ; Haunted Man 1 v Dombey and Son 3 v . Copperfield 3 v Bleak House 4 v . A Child's History of England ( 2 v . 80 27 Ngr . ) . Hard Times 1v Little Dorrit 4 v . TwoCities 2v . Hunt ed Down ; Traveller 1 v ...
... Italy 1 v . Battle of Life ; Haunted Man 1 v Dombey and Son 3 v . Copperfield 3 v Bleak House 4 v . A Child's History of England ( 2 v . 80 27 Ngr . ) . Hard Times 1v Little Dorrit 4 v . TwoCities 2v . Hunt ed Down ; Traveller 1 v ...
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... . The Comus is framed on the model of the Italian Masque , as the Samson is framed on the model of the Greek Tragedy . It is certainly the noblest performance of the kind which exists in any language . It is as far superior MILTON . 15.
... . The Comus is framed on the model of the Italian Masque , as the Samson is framed on the model of the Greek Tragedy . It is certainly the noblest performance of the kind which exists in any language . It is as far superior MILTON . 15.
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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 Ita- lian 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 Ita- lian predecessors ...
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... 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 most memorable eras in the history of mankind , at the very ...
... 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 most memorable eras in the history of mankind , at the very ...
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... Italy , to read with- out 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 with- out 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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