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... grace and polish of his language , that the chief beauty of his sonnets evaporates in a harsher tongue , and many a greater poet is less difficult to translate . I have endeavoured in the follow- ing pages to select those versions from ...
... grace and polish of his language , that the chief beauty of his sonnets evaporates in a harsher tongue , and many a greater poet is less difficult to translate . I have endeavoured in the follow- ing pages to select those versions from ...
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... grace . The pure and elegant language in which they are written has nothing of the archaic grandeur and severity of the style of Dante . Like that stream of the Sorgia in the valley Petrarch chose for a retreat , his Italian verse ...
... grace . The pure and elegant language in which they are written has nothing of the archaic grandeur and severity of the style of Dante . Like that stream of the Sorgia in the valley Petrarch chose for a retreat , his Italian verse ...
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... grace of Heaven ; Not always shall this deadly sloth endure : Our sons shall live in days more bright and pure ; Then with fresh shoots our Helicon shall glow ; Then the fresh laurel spread its sacred bough ; Then the high intellect and ...
... grace of Heaven ; Not always shall this deadly sloth endure : Our sons shall live in days more bright and pure ; Then with fresh shoots our Helicon shall glow ; Then the fresh laurel spread its sacred bough ; Then the high intellect and ...
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... grace and sentiment of medieval Italy with singular success into the measures of our own tongue . He enumerates no less than forty - four writers of vernacular poetry , all belong- ing to the thirteenth century , of whose works some ...
... grace and sentiment of medieval Italy with singular success into the measures of our own tongue . He enumerates no less than forty - four writers of vernacular poetry , all belong- ing to the thirteenth century , of whose works some ...
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Henry Reeve. INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH POETRY . 39 powers and grace , the vein of thought and feeling is the same - it was the fashion of the age . These scattered fragments of a poetic age have a charm of their own . They are entirely devoid ...
Henry Reeve. INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH POETRY . 39 powers and grace , the vein of thought and feeling is the same - it was the fashion of the age . These scattered fragments of a poetic age have a charm of their own . They are entirely devoid ...
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