Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 páginas |
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... turned their attention to the more sublime and graceful models of Greece . From this time the admiration of learning and genius became almost an idolatry among the people of Italy . Kings and republics , cardinals and doges , vied with ...
... turned their attention to the more sublime and graceful models of Greece . From this time the admiration of learning and genius became almost an idolatry among the people of Italy . Kings and republics , cardinals and doges , vied with ...
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... turning his arms against his late masters . The soldier was altogether disjoined from the citizen and from the subject . The natural consequences followed . Left to the conduct of men who neither loved those whom they defended , nor ...
... turning his arms against his late masters . The soldier was altogether disjoined from the citizen and from the subject . The natural consequences followed . Left to the conduct of men who neither loved those whom they defended , nor ...
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... turned with loathing from the atrocity of the strangers who seemed to love blood for its own sake , who , not content with subjugating , were impatient to destroy ; who found a fiendish pleasure in razing magnificent cities , cutting ...
... turned with loathing from the atrocity of the strangers who seemed to love blood for its own sake , who , not content with subjugating , were impatient to destroy ; who found a fiendish pleasure in razing magnificent cities , cutting ...
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... turned out to be false . In the same man- ner , a child screams with terror at the sight of a person in an ugly mask . He has , perhaps , seen the mask put on . But his imagination is too strong for his reason , and he en- treats that ...
... turned out to be false . In the same man- ner , a child screams with terror at the sight of a person in an ugly mask . He has , perhaps , seen the mask put on . But his imagination is too strong for his reason , and he en- treats that ...
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... turning the subject round and round - by tracing out facts into remote conse- quences , that these incongruous topics are introduced into the description . Homer , it is true , perpetually uses epithets which are not peculiarly ...
... turning the subject round and round - by tracing out facts into remote conse- quences , that these incongruous topics are introduced into the description . Homer , it is true , perpetually uses epithets which are not peculiarly ...
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