Selected Poems: The Essay on Criticism ; The Moral EssaysLongmans, 1896 - 114 страница |
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... Italy and in France the tide had been running strongly for several generations against the Middle Ages and all their works ; Christian antiquity was deemed Gothic and rude ; and the literary class , clergy and laity alike , fixed its ...
... Italy and in France the tide had been running strongly for several generations against the Middle Ages and all their works ; Christian antiquity was deemed Gothic and rude ; and the literary class , clergy and laity alike , fixed its ...
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... Italian concetto ; it means , a fine and uncommon thought , ex- pressed in suitable poetic language . A rage for ' conceits ' set in in the sixteenth century , and vitiated much of the poetry of that age beginning in Italy , where ...
... Italian concetto ; it means , a fine and uncommon thought , ex- pressed in suitable poetic language . A rage for ' conceits ' set in in the sixteenth century , and vitiated much of the poetry of that age beginning in Italy , where ...
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... works behind . L. 545. Socinus : Lælius Socinus and his nephew Faustus , natives of Sienna in Italy , born , the one in 1525 , the other in 1539 , were the founders of the anti - Trinitarian sect which 78 [ E. on Crit . Notes .
... works behind . L. 545. Socinus : Lælius Socinus and his nephew Faustus , natives of Sienna in Italy , born , the one in 1525 , the other in 1539 , were the founders of the anti - Trinitarian sect which 78 [ E. on Crit . Notes .
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... Italians , The French pursued their steps ; and Britain , last , In manly sweetness all the rest surpassed . The wit of Greece , the gravity of Rome , Appear exalted in the British loom . The Muses ' empire is restored again In ...
... Italians , The French pursued their steps ; and Britain , last , In manly sweetness all the rest surpassed . The wit of Greece , the gravity of Rome , Appear exalted in the British loom . The Muses ' empire is restored again In ...
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... Italian architects who worked in the Renaissance style in the sixteenth century . The elegant open arcades which he de- signed were of course better suited for the Italian than the English climate . L. 42 . Worth the seven : The seven ...
... Italian architects who worked in the Renaissance style in the sixteenth century . The elegant open arcades which he de- signed were of course better suited for the Italian than the English climate . L. 42 . Worth the seven : The seven ...
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