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Pagina xi
... literature . Each essay is a short book , which can be read in an hour or two ; it requires no intellectual effort from the reader , rather it forestalls any such . Each is a mas- terpiece of rhetoric , each decides everything . The ...
... literature . Each essay is a short book , which can be read in an hour or two ; it requires no intellectual effort from the reader , rather it forestalls any such . Each is a mas- terpiece of rhetoric , each decides everything . The ...
Pagina xiii
... literature . Nor would he now give his consent to the republication of pieces so imperfect , if , by withholding his consent , he could make republication impossible . But , as they have been reprinted more than once in the United ...
... literature . Nor would he now give his consent to the republication of pieces so imperfect , if , by withholding his consent , he could make republication impossible . But , as they have been reprinted more than once in the United ...
Pagina 1
... literature , Dante has a double claim to precedency . He was the earliest and the greatest writer of his country . He was the first man who fully descried and exhibited the powers of his native dialect . The Latin tongue , which , under ...
... literature , Dante has a double claim to precedency . He was the earliest and the greatest writer of his country . He was the first man who fully descried and exhibited the powers of his native dialect . The Latin tongue , which , under ...
Pagina 2
... literature . I wish not to detract from the merits of Petrarch . No one can doubt that his poems exhibit , amidst some imbecility and more affectation , much elegance , ingenuity , and tenderness . They present us with a mixture which ...
... literature . I wish not to detract from the merits of Petrarch . No one can doubt that his poems exhibit , amidst some imbecility and more affectation , much elegance , ingenuity , and tenderness . They present us with a mixture which ...
Pagina 3
... literature of Italy . The florid and luxuri- ous charms of his style enticed the poets and the public from the contemplation of nobler and sterner models . In truth , though a rude state of society is that in which great original works ...
... literature of Italy . The florid and luxuri- ous charms of his style enticed the poets and the public from the contemplation of nobler and sterner models . In truth , though a rude state of society is that in which great original works ...
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Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1900 |
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