PetrarchWilliam Blackwood and sons, 1879 - 148 páginas |
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... seems to be the first who understood his superlative eminence . Petrarch spoke to them in more familiar tones . He was a man of the world , mingling in all the society of his age . Dante was an exile and a solitary , who spake as one ...
... seems to be the first who understood his superlative eminence . Petrarch spoke to them in more familiar tones . He was a man of the world , mingling in all the society of his age . Dante was an exile and a solitary , who spake as one ...
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... seem to restrict my freedom . " My mind was rather well balanced than acute ; adapted to every good and wholesome study , but especially prone to philosophy and poetry . And yet even this I neglected , as time went on , through the ...
... seem to restrict my freedom . " My mind was rather well balanced than acute ; adapted to every good and wholesome study , but especially prone to philosophy and poetry . And yet even this I neglected , as time went on , through the ...
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... seem to have been conferred upon an unworthy recipient , having one day , after climbing by chance a mountain in the neighbourhood , been suddenly struck with the appearance of the place , I turned my pen once more to the interrupted ...
... seem to have been conferred upon an unworthy recipient , having one day , after climbing by chance a mountain in the neighbourhood , been suddenly struck with the appearance of the place , I turned my pen once more to the interrupted ...
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... seems to have left him nothing but a very choice copy of some of the works of 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 ...
... seems to have left him nothing but a very choice copy of some of the works of 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 ...
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... seems to have felt like Dante that it was an intolerable misery to eat another man's bread or mount another man's stairs . He began life as a man of the world , open to every kindly influ- ence , ardent in friendship , enthusiastic in ...
... seems to have felt like Dante that it was an intolerable misery to eat another man's bread or mount another man's stairs . He began life as a man of the world , open to every kindly influ- ence , ardent in friendship , enthusiastic in ...
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