Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green & Company, 1882 |
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Pagina 66
... followed the downfal of the Roman Empire , Italy had preserved , in a far greater degree than any other part of Western Europe , the traces of ancient civili- sation . The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer ...
... followed the downfal of the Roman Empire , Italy had preserved , in a far greater degree than any other part of Western Europe , the traces of ancient civili- sation . The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer ...
Pagina 186
... followed the Restoration peculiarly require that un- sparing impartiality which is his most distinguishing virtue . No part of our history , during the last three centuries , presents a spectacle of such general dreari- ness . The whole ...
... followed the Restoration peculiarly require that un- sparing impartiality which is his most distinguishing virtue . No part of our history , during the last three centuries , presents a spectacle of such general dreari- ness . The whole ...
Pagina 205
... followed by severe measures on the part of the con- querors ; each exciting a deadly and festering hatred in the conquered . During the reign of George the Second , things were evidently tending to repose . At the close of that reign ...
... followed by severe measures on the part of the con- querors ; each exciting a deadly and festering hatred in the conquered . During the reign of George the Second , things were evidently tending to repose . At the close of that reign ...
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MACHIAVELLI March 1827 | 62 |
SOUTHEYS COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY | 215 |
MOORES LIFE OF LORD BYRON June 1830 | 292 |
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