Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina 68
... Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry ... Italy , of which he had with particular dili- gence studied the language and literature : and , though he seems to ...
... Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry ... Italy , of which he had with particular dili- gence studied the language and literature : and , though he seems to ...
Pagina 403
... Italy , which he surveyed with the eyes of a poet . While he was travelling at leisure , he was far from being idle ; for he not only collected his observations on the country , but found time to write his Dialogues on Medals , and four ...
... Italy , which he surveyed with the eyes of a poet . While he was travelling at leisure , he was far from being idle ; for he not only collected his observations on the country , but found time to write his Dialogues on Medals , and four ...
Pagina 451
... Italian opera , an exotick and irrational entertainment , which has been always combated , and always has prevailed ... Italy ; but who never , I believe , found many readers n this country , even though introduced by such power- ul ...
... Italian opera , an exotick and irrational entertainment , which has been always combated , and always has prevailed ... Italy ; but who never , I believe , found many readers n this country , even though introduced by such power- ul ...
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