Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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Page 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 to 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 to 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 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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... 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 , judi- cious , 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 , judi- cious , scientific atrocity ...
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... Italy . The earliest as- sailant , as far as we are aware , was a countryman of our own , Cardinal Pole . The author of the Anti - Machiavelli was a French Protestant . It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Ita ...
... Italy . The earliest as- sailant , as far as we are aware , was a countryman of our own , Cardinal Pole . The author of the Anti - Machiavelli was a French Protestant . It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Ita ...
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