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... chance of emancipation and revenge , passed into a proverb of infamy . For more than two hundred years his bones lay undis- tinguished . At length , an English nobleman paid the last honours to the greatest statesman of Florence .
... chance of emancipation and revenge , passed into a proverb of infamy . For more than two hundred years his bones lay undis- tinguished . At length , an English nobleman paid the last honours to the greatest statesman of Florence .
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... and with how little merit a book may be popular . Of the romance of Defoe , he entertains the highest opinion . He perceives the hand of a master in ten thousand touches , which formerly he passed by with- VOL . I. - 10 out notice .
... and with how little merit a book may be popular . Of the romance of Defoe , he entertains the highest opinion . He perceives the hand of a master in ten thousand touches , which formerly he passed by with- VOL . I. - 10 out notice .
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Who can doubt that the youth of that great artist was passed amidst an ideal world of beautiful and majestic forms ? Or , who will attribute the difference which appears between his first rude essays , and his magnificent ...
Who can doubt that the youth of that great artist was passed amidst an ideal world of beautiful and majestic forms ? Or , who will attribute the difference which appears between his first rude essays , and his magnificent ...
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Every year which he had passed among stran- gers had rendered him more unfit to rule his countrymen . In France , he had seen the refractory magistracy humbled , and royal prerogative , though exercised by a foreign priest in the name ...
Every year which he had passed among stran- gers had rendered him more unfit to rule his countrymen . In France , he had seen the refractory magistracy humbled , and royal prerogative , though exercised by a foreign priest in the name ...
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The revolution through which English literature has been passing , from the time of Cowley to that of Scott , may be seen in miniature within the compass of his volumes . His life divides itself into two parts .
The revolution through which English literature has been passing , from the time of Cowley to that of Scott , may be seen in miniature within the compass of his volumes . His life divides itself into two parts .
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1854 |
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