Periods of European Literature, Volume 5George Saintsbury William Blackwood, 1923 |
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... piece of good fortune that men like Rabelais and even Marot did write in French . But French itself would not have fully sufficed for his purposes , which required the language not of Rabelais , not of Calvin , not even of Montaigne ...
... piece of good fortune that men like Rabelais and even Marot did write in French . But French itself would not have fully sufficed for his purposes , which required the language not of Rabelais , not of Calvin , not even of Montaigne ...
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... piece is that it could have been done much better in prose . We may now pass to less serious things . Sannazar ( 1458-1530 ) , who belongs not less , or even more , to the fifteenth century1 than to the sixteenth , Sannazar . has ...
... piece is that it could have been done much better in prose . We may now pass to less serious things . Sannazar ( 1458-1530 ) , who belongs not less , or even more , to the fifteenth century1 than to the sixteenth , Sannazar . has ...
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... piece was fair of its kind and duly " crowned " it , as the French would say ; but he was not happy . " There's nothing in it about the sacrifice of Iphigenia , " he said mournfully ; " I had expected something about the sacrifice of ...
... piece was fair of its kind and duly " crowned " it , as the French would say ; but he was not happy . " There's nothing in it about the sacrifice of Iphigenia , " he said mournfully ; " I had expected something about the sacrifice of ...
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... piece 2 seems to me to deserve rather higher praise than Mr Symonds gives it , and that on Marcus Curtius reinforces the impression given by its companion . Both show not merely a man who is able to think in spheres above those of the ...
... piece 2 seems to me to deserve rather higher praise than Mr Symonds gives it , and that on Marcus Curtius reinforces the impression given by its companion . Both show not merely a man who is able to think in spheres above those of the ...
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... piece is an elegy on the youthful poet Alcon . This undoubtedly had great influence on suc- ceeding pieces of the kind , including even Lycidas ; but we may , perhaps , incline the parallel between Castiglione and Milton in a somewhat ...
... piece is an elegy on the youthful poet Alcon . This undoubtedly had great influence on suc- ceeding pieces of the kind , including even Lycidas ; but we may , perhaps , incline the parallel between Castiglione and Milton in a somewhat ...
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