Periods of European Literature, Volume 5George Saintsbury William Blackwood, 1923 |
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... kind of 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 ...
... kind of 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 ...
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... kind , carries his literary life more than usually in his hands . I found , indeed , when I was arranging this series , that more than one actual specialist was too much afraid of the others , in the subdivisions of the period not ...
... kind , carries his literary life more than usually in his hands . I found , indeed , when I was arranging this series , that more than one actual specialist was too much afraid of the others , in the subdivisions of the period not ...
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... kind performs for him in another department - to give a connected , a critical , and a comparative view of the Literature of Europe . And while its several volumes have been planned so as to be reasonably complete in 1 Vide infra , p ...
... kind performs for him in another department - to give a connected , a critical , and a comparative view of the Literature of Europe . And while its several volumes have been planned so as to be reasonably complete in 1 Vide infra , p ...
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... kind or representing the mere pastime of scholars , ceased to be written in the universal language . And it is doubtful whether any one , except some accidental specialist , would now be competent to write them . In fact , Dr Johnson ...
... kind or representing the mere pastime of scholars , ceased to be written in the universal language . And it is doubtful whether any one , except some accidental specialist , would now be competent to write them . In fact , Dr Johnson ...
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... kind . It is much less am- bitious in form and much fuller of fact . But both agreed in that eager and almost ferocious quest for the actual writings of antiquity , as to which all sane critics are agreed that it was the work which ...
... kind . It is much less am- bitious in form and much fuller of fact . But both agreed in that eager and almost ferocious quest for the actual writings of antiquity , as to which all sane critics are agreed that it was the work which ...
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