Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1872 - 855 páginas |
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... tion ; and he has therefore succeeded , wherever success was not impossible . The speeches must be read as majestic soliloquies ; and he who so reads them will be enraptured with their eloquence , their sublimity , and their music . The ...
... tion ; and he has therefore succeeded , wherever success was not impossible . The speeches must be read as majestic soliloquies ; and he who so reads them will be enraptured with their eloquence , their sublimity , and their music . The ...
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... tion we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to call him a bad man , in spite of all his temperance at table , and all his regularity at chapel . sors . We cannot refrain from adding a few ...
... tion we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to call him a bad man , in spite of all his temperance at table , and all his regularity at chapel . sors . We cannot refrain from adding a few ...
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... tion . Some of those crimes of Borgia which to us appear the most odious would not , from causes which we have already considered , have struck an Italian of the fifteenth century with equal horror . Patriotic feeling also might induce ...
... tion . Some of those crimes of Borgia which to us appear the most odious would not , from causes which we have already considered , have struck an Italian of the fifteenth century with equal horror . Patriotic feeling also might induce ...
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... tion of his design . The times were , in some respects , favourable to the experiment . The system of military tactics had undergone a great revolu- tion . The cavalry was no longer considered as forming the strength of an army . The ...
... tion of his design . The times were , in some respects , favourable to the experiment . The system of military tactics had undergone a great revolu- tion . The cavalry was no longer considered as forming the strength of an army . The ...
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... tion is , no doubt , in all its principal points , strictly true . But the numerous little incidents which heighten the interest , the words , the gestures , the looks , are evidently furnished by the imagination of the author . The ...
... tion is , no doubt , in all its principal points , strictly true . But the numerous little incidents which heighten the interest , the words , the gestures , the looks , are evidently furnished by the imagination of the author . The ...
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