Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 3Houghton, Mifflin, 1901 |
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Pagina 9
... character , distinct usages , and a distinct speech . The soil was fruitful and well cultivated ; and amidst the cornfields and vineyards rose many rich cities , each of which was a little republic , and many stately castles , each of ...
... character , distinct usages , and a distinct speech . The soil was fruitful and well cultivated ; and amidst the cornfields and vineyards rose many rich cities , each of which was a little republic , and many stately castles , each of ...
Pagina 14
... character of that court excited the scorn and disgust of a grave , earnest , sincere , and devout people . The new theology spread with a rapidity never known before . All ranks , all varieties of character , joined the ranks of the ...
... character of that court excited the scorn and disgust of a grave , earnest , sincere , and devout people . The new theology spread with a rapidity never known before . All ranks , all varieties of character , joined the ranks of the ...
Pagina 35
... character to the history of a whole century . Protestantism had at first driven back Catholicism to the Alps and the Pyrenees . Catholicism had rallied , and had driven back Protestantism even to the German Ocean . Then the great ...
... character to the history of a whole century . Protestantism had at first driven back Catholicism to the Alps and the Pyrenees . Catholicism had rallied , and had driven back Protestantism even to the German Ocean . Then the great ...
Pagina 51
... character . It is clever , indeed , and very entertaining ; but it is , in the most emphatic sense of the words , " earthly , sensual , devilish . " Its indecency , though perpetually such as is condemned not less by the rules of good ...
... character . It is clever , indeed , and very entertaining ; but it is , in the most emphatic sense of the words , " earthly , sensual , devilish . " Its indecency , though perpetually such as is condemned not less by the rules of good ...
Pagina 52
... character of a seducer of married women is represented in a favorable light . We remember many plays in which such persons are baffled , exposed , covered with derision , and insulted by trium- phant husbands . Such is the fate of ...
... character of a seducer of married women is represented in a favorable light . We remember many plays in which such persons are baffled , exposed , covered with derision , and insulted by trium- phant husbands . Such is the fate of ...
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