Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to TennysonClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869 - 411 Seiten |
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... Italy , of Spain , the South of Europe , have their re- spective claims and attractions . Besides the modern mind , there is all that , venerable with the age of thou- sands of years , has come down to us from Greece , and Rome , and ...
... Italy , of Spain , the South of Europe , have their re- spective claims and attractions . Besides the modern mind , there is all that , venerable with the age of thou- sands of years , has come down to us from Greece , and Rome , and ...
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... Italian , Spanish , and German , no one of the languages at- tempts this tremendous alliteration . I cannot pause upon this quality of style further than to remark , that he who studies the language , will find an interest in observing ...
... Italian , Spanish , and German , no one of the languages at- tempts this tremendous alliteration . I cannot pause upon this quality of style further than to remark , that he who studies the language , will find an interest in observing ...
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... Italy , or Germany . But the anti- quated dialect of his own language is a mingled mass of sunshine and shadow , with sharp and sudden changes from one to the other , so that the mind is distracted in the uncertainty how long the ...
... Italy , or Germany . But the anti- quated dialect of his own language is a mingled mass of sunshine and shadow , with sharp and sudden changes from one to the other , so that the mind is distracted in the uncertainty how long the ...
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... Italy's great poet , then the aged Petrarch , possibly meeting Boccacio and Froissart . When , near three hundred years later , the youthful Milton visited the shores of Italy , amid all the classical associa- tions that were thronging ...
... Italy's great poet , then the aged Petrarch , possibly meeting Boccacio and Froissart . When , near three hundred years later , the youthful Milton visited the shores of Italy , amid all the classical associa- tions that were thronging ...
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... Italian literature - bears in the transmutation the glory of a great poet's invention . What most distinguishes the genius of Chaucer is the comprehensiveness and variety of his powers . You look at him in his gay mood , and it is so ...
... Italian literature - bears in the transmutation the glory of a great poet's invention . What most distinguishes the genius of Chaucer is the comprehensiveness and variety of his powers . You look at him in his gay mood , and it is so ...
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