PetrarchWilliam Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 148 páginas |
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... Cicero and the letters of the younger Pliny offer the nearest parallel ; but Cicero leaves much to be gathered from other histories , and Pliny's life is extremely incomplete . Petrarch is his own biographer , and the annalist of that ...
... Cicero and the letters of the younger Pliny offer the nearest parallel ; but Cicero leaves much to be gathered from other histories , and Pliny's life is extremely incomplete . Petrarch is his own biographer , and the annalist of that ...
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... Cicero - a treasure he valued above all others , for the rhythm of Ciceronian prose was the enchantment of his life , and dearer to him than all the songs of Italy . It is impossible to say how he lived , for we find him at all times in ...
... Cicero - a treasure he valued above all others , for the rhythm of Ciceronian prose was the enchantment of his life , and dearer to him than all the songs of Italy . It is impossible to say how he lived , for we find him at all times in ...
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... Cicero and Virgil , and these great writers are the models whom he imitated with imperfect success , both in prose and verse , in his philosophical essays and in his Eclogues and his " Africa . " The love - songs of the troubadours of ...
... Cicero and Virgil , and these great writers are the models whom he imitated with imperfect success , both in prose and verse , in his philosophical essays and in his Eclogues and his " Africa . " The love - songs of the troubadours of ...
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... Cicero's treatise ' De Gloriâ . ' : " You may recollect , " says the poet , " that in the flower of our boyhood , when we studied together so happily , my father and your uncle , who were then about as old as we are now , happened to ...
... Cicero's treatise ' De Gloriâ . ' : " You may recollect , " says the poet , " that in the flower of our boyhood , when we studied together so happily , my father and your uncle , who were then about as old as we are now , happened to ...
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... Cicero or of Plato , though professedly written in imitation of them the author affects to lay bare the defects of his character and the workings of his heart . " Love and glory , " says the Saint , " are the chains which bind you ...
... Cicero or of Plato , though professedly written in imitation of them the author affects to lay bare the defects of his character and the workings of his heart . " Love and glory , " says the Saint , " are the chains which bind you ...
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