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... youth , having always had the desire to make the man , as well as the poet , better known to my country- men . My design has been in some measure anticipated by M. Mézières of the French Academy , whose bio- graphical Essay on Petrarch ...
... youth , having always had the desire to make the man , as well as the poet , better known to my country- men . My design has been in some measure anticipated by M. Mézières of the French Academy , whose bio- graphical Essay on Petrarch ...
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... treat these compositions as the " mere trifles of his youth " ( nugellas meas vulgares ) , he had , perhaps unconsciously , created a language , and scattered round A MASTER OF STYLE . 9 him exquisite beauties , THE MAN OF LETTERS,
... treat these compositions as the " mere trifles of his youth " ( nugellas meas vulgares ) , he had , perhaps unconsciously , created a language , and scattered round A MASTER OF STYLE . 9 him exquisite beauties , THE MAN OF LETTERS,
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... youth . " -Africa , lib . ix . Petrarch , then , was great , not only by a bootless pas- sion which his poetical genius clothed in imperishable language the chaste language of tenderness and of regret , without a single line that can ...
... youth . " -Africa , lib . ix . Petrarch , then , was great , not only by a bootless pas- sion which his poetical genius clothed in imperishable language the chaste language of tenderness and of regret , without a single line that can ...
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... youth , with a person of inferior station , by whom he had two children , was his humiliation and his bane . His vanity was easily irritated , and never satisfied , even by the homage paid to his genius . His friendships , which touched ...
... youth , with a person of inferior station , by whom he had two children , was his humiliation and his bane . His vanity was easily irritated , and never satisfied , even by the homage paid to his genius . His friendships , which touched ...
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... Youth deceived me ; manhood carried me away ; but old age corrected me , and by experience taught me thoroughly that truth which I had long before studied , namely , that youth and pleasure are vanities . Of a truth the Fashioner of ...
... Youth deceived me ; manhood carried me away ; but old age corrected me , and by experience taught me thoroughly that truth which I had long before studied , namely , that youth and pleasure are vanities . Of a truth the Fashioner of ...
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