Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... heart with a frigid mistress and a more frigid Muse . Boccaccio turned their attention to the more sublime and graceful models of Greece . From this time , the admiration of learning and genius became almost an idolatry among the people ...
... heart with a frigid mistress and a more frigid Muse . Boccaccio turned their attention to the more sublime and graceful models of Greece . From this time , the admiration of learning and genius became almost an idolatry among the people ...
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... heart : yet every look is a cordial smile , every gesture a familiar caress . He never excites the suspicion of his adversaries by petty provocations . > , His purpose is disclosed only when it is accomplished . His face is unruffled ...
... heart : yet every look is a cordial smile , every gesture a familiar caress . He never excites the suspicion of his adversaries by petty provocations . > , His purpose is disclosed only when it is accomplished . His face is unruffled ...
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... a transient energy to the feeble mind and body of the last Sforza . It excited for one moment an honest ambition in the false heart of Pescara . Ferocity and insolence were not among the vices of the national character Machiavelli 25.
... a transient energy to the feeble mind and body of the last Sforza . It excited for one moment an honest ambition in the false heart of Pescara . Ferocity and insolence were not among the vices of the national character Machiavelli 25.
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... heart and to his intellect , for abolishing the use of mercenary troops , and for organising a national militia . The exertions which he made to effect this great object ought alone to rescue his name from obloquy . Though his situation ...
... heart and to his intellect , for abolishing the use of mercenary troops , and for organising a national militia . The exertions which he made to effect this great object ought alone to rescue his name from obloquy . Though his situation ...
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... heart of Clement . The History does not appear to be the fruit of much industry or research . It is unquestionably inaccurate . But it is elegant , lively , and picturesque , beyond any other in the Italian language . The reader , we ...
... heart of Clement . The History does not appear to be the fruit of much industry or research . It is unquestionably inaccurate . But it is elegant , lively , and picturesque , beyond any other in the Italian language . The reader , we ...
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