PetrarchWilliam Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 148 páginas |
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... present age.1 A catalogue of these 1 It is curious to contrast with this abundant crop of publications the fact that only four editions of the works of Shakespeare were F.C.-IV. A editions was published in 1834 by Rossetti , an advocate ...
... present age.1 A catalogue of these 1 It is curious to contrast with this abundant crop of publications the fact that only four editions of the works of Shakespeare were F.C.-IV. A editions was published in 1834 by Rossetti , an advocate ...
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... present day , but it was not so three or four centuries ago . On the contrary , they had been largely circulated in manuscript , and upon the invention of printing , no books were more eagerly published and sought after . Six folio ...
... present day , but it was not so three or four centuries ago . On the contrary , they had been largely circulated in manuscript , and upon the invention of printing , no books were more eagerly published and sought after . Six folio ...
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... present day . " There is no similar in- stance in literature of a writer whose language attained perfection at the first jet , and retains an immaculate purity for five hundred years . But this portion of the life and work of Petrarch ...
... present day . " There is no similar in- stance in literature of a writer whose language attained perfection at the first jet , and retains an immaculate purity for five hundred years . But this portion of the life and work of Petrarch ...
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... present things , but pursues its ends in the eternity of the future and the ideal effigies of the past . " With no lordly genius , but with a larger ex- perience of the world , Petrarch aspired , like Dante , to the religious life . His ...
... present things , but pursues its ends in the eternity of the future and the ideal effigies of the past . " With no lordly genius , but with a larger ex- perience of the world , Petrarch aspired , like Dante , to the religious life . His ...
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... present , ever struggling to engraft myself upon the past . Accordingly I delighted in historians - not , how- ever , being in any way the less offended at their contradic- tions , but following , when in doubt , that path which veri ...
... present , ever struggling to engraft myself upon the past . Accordingly I delighted in historians - not , how- ever , being in any way the less offended at their contradic- tions , but following , when in doubt , that path which veri ...
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