Periods of European Literature, Volume 5George Saintsbury William Blackwood, 1923 |
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... genius as Boccaccio's , to see that the stationary state , if not exactly the age of decadence , has been reached . The poet of the Orlando is , indeed , as much greater in individual gift than Boccaccio as he is lesser than Dante ; but ...
... genius as Boccaccio's , to see that the stationary state , if not exactly the age of decadence , has been reached . The poet of the Orlando is , indeed , as much greater in individual gift than Boccaccio as he is lesser than Dante ; but ...
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... genius turned itself into the channel of Latin writing . In each case the original cause was no doubt the existence - partly explicable , partly not - of an unusual amount and force of this literary genius , which in the earlier period ...
... genius turned itself into the channel of Latin writing . In each case the original cause was no doubt the existence - partly explicable , partly not - of an unusual amount and force of this literary genius , which in the earlier period ...
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... genius and public bene- factors , all this has excited interest neither unnatural nor ungenerous , though perhaps sometimes a little uncritical . Even their much more questionable vir- tues , and their quite unquestionable vices , have ...
... genius and public bene- factors , all this has excited interest neither unnatural nor ungenerous , though perhaps sometimes a little uncritical . Even their much more questionable vir- tues , and their quite unquestionable vices , have ...
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... genius his country ever pro- duced , " that he was not merely " a very fine poet , " but " a great poetical genius . " It was the dedication to Queen Mary , Nympha Caledonia , which ( though he did not illustrate it therefrom ) elicited ...
... genius his country ever pro- duced , " that he was not merely " a very fine poet , " but " a great poetical genius . " It was the dedication to Queen Mary , Nympha Caledonia , which ( though he did not illustrate it therefrom ) elicited ...
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... genius " which Johnson's different interpretation of the words enabled him ( perhaps on his own standard truly ) to find in Buchanan , we shall be able to allow him in his Latin verse the praise , lesser but not small , of having ac ...
... genius " which Johnson's different interpretation of the words enabled him ( perhaps on his own standard truly ) to find in Buchanan , we shall be able to allow him in his Latin verse the praise , lesser but not small , of having ac ...
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