PetrarchWilliam Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 148 páginas |
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... learning of a theolo- gical school , and the ignorance of a lawless city , " says Gibbon , " were alike unqualified to bestow the ideal though immortal wreath which genius may obtain from the free applause of the public and of posterity ...
... learning of a theolo- gical school , and the ignorance of a lawless city , " says Gibbon , " were alike unqualified to bestow the ideal though immortal wreath which genius may obtain from the free applause of the public and of posterity ...
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... learning and memory , which enabled him , we know not how , to acquire and retain a minute knowledge of classical literature and history , inconceiv- able in an age when every writer had to be studied in manuscript , and manuscripts ...
... learning and memory , which enabled him , we know not how , to acquire and retain a minute knowledge of classical literature and history , inconceiv- able in an age when every writer had to be studied in manuscript , and manuscripts ...
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... learning and happiness from the sight and touch of a book . His wife's face was scorched by the sun , and her body extenuated by labour ; but she had a soul of the most candid and generous nature . Under the burning heat of the dog ...
... learning and happiness from the sight and touch of a book . His wife's face was scorched by the sun , and her body extenuated by labour ; but she had a soul of the most candid and generous nature . Under the burning heat of the dog ...
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... learning of his age , corresponding with the most eminent and accomplished men of his time , and sharing in the great patriotic movements of Italy and of Europe . He continued , indeed , to repair at intervals to the rustic solitude of ...
... learning of his age , corresponding with the most eminent and accomplished men of his time , and sharing in the great patriotic movements of Italy and of Europe . He continued , indeed , to repair at intervals to the rustic solitude of ...
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... learning of these German poets . Unless I am deceiving you , I would have you know that they have indeed no Virgil , but more than one Ovid , as that poet himself said , at the end of his ' Metamorphoses , ' trusting either to the ...
... learning of these German poets . Unless I am deceiving you , I would have you know that they have indeed no Virgil , but more than one Ovid , as that poet himself said , at the end of his ' Metamorphoses , ' trusting either to the ...
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