Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 21
... court , springing out of nothing , and tending to nothing . We are not shocked at being told that a man who lived , nobody knows when , saw many very strange sights , and we can easily abandon ourselves to tho illusion of the romance ...
... court , springing out of nothing , and tending to nothing . We are not shocked at being told that a man who lived , nobody knows when , saw many very strange sights , and we can easily abandon ourselves to tho illusion of the romance ...
Pagina 50
... court of Charles the Second was celebrated . But , if we must make our choice , we shall , like Bassanio in the play , turn from the specious caskets which contain only the Death's head and the Fool's head , and fix on the plain leaden ...
... court of Charles the Second was celebrated . But , if we must make our choice , we shall , like Bassanio in the play , turn from the specious caskets which contain only the Death's head and the Fool's head , and fix on the plain leaden ...
Pagina 55
... Court , from the conventicle and from the Gothic cloister , from the gloomy and sepulchral circles of the Roundheads , and from the Christmas revel of the hospitable Cavalier , his nature selected and drew to itself whatever was great ...
... Court , from the conventicle and from the Gothic cloister , from the gloomy and sepulchral circles of the Roundheads , and from the Christmas revel of the hospitable Cavalier , his nature selected and drew to itself whatever was great ...
Pagina 62
... court . We doubt whether any name in literary history be so generally odious as that of the man whose cha- racter and writings we now propose to consider . The terms in which he is commonly described would seem to import that he was the ...
... court . We doubt whether any name in literary history be so generally odious as that of the man whose cha- racter and writings we now propose to consider . The terms in which he is commonly described would seem to import that he was the ...
Pagina 70
... court for the happiness of a people . Fortunately , John Villani has given us an ample and precise account of the state of Florence in the early part of the fourteenth century . The revenue of the Republic amounted to three hundred ...
... court for the happiness of a people . Fortunately , John Villani has given us an ample and precise account of the state of Florence in the early part of the fourteenth century . The revenue of the Republic amounted to three hundred ...
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