Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... Petrarch was scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in the ancient language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little ...
... Petrarch was scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in the ancient language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little ...
Page 29
... Petrarch in the style . They are simple but majestic records of the feelings of the poet ; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been . A victory , an unexpected attack upon the city , a momentary fit of ...
... Petrarch in the style . They are simple but majestic records of the feelings of the poet ; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been . A victory , an unexpected attack upon the city , a momentary fit of ...
Page 71
... Petrarch introduced a more profound , liberal , and ele- gant scholarship , and communicated to his countrymen that enthusiasm for the literature , the history , and the antiquities of Rome , which divided his own heart with a frigid ...
... Petrarch introduced a more profound , liberal , and ele- gant scholarship , and communicated to his countrymen that enthusiasm for the literature , the history , and the antiquities of Rome , which divided his own heart with a frigid ...
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... Petrarch excited in his own time , and the pitying fondness with which half Europe looked upon Rousseau , are well known . To readers of our age , the love of Petrarch seems to have been love of that kind which breaks no hearts , and ...
... Petrarch excited in his own time , and the pitying fondness with which half Europe looked upon Rousseau , are well known . To readers of our age , the love of Petrarch seems to have been love of that kind which breaks no hearts , and ...
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