Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 50
... Death's head and the Fool's head , and fix on the plain leaden chest which conceals the treasure . The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests ...
... Death's head and the Fool's head , and fix on the plain leaden chest which conceals the treasure . The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests ...
Pagina 52
... Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms . They had their smiles and their tears , their raptures and their sorrows , but not for the things of this world . Enthusiasm had made them Stoics , had cleared their minds from every ...
... Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms . They had their smiles and their tears , their raptures and their sorrows , but not for the things of this world . Enthusiasm had made them Stoics , had cleared their minds from every ...
Pagina 65
... death of Leonidas . An act of dexterous perfidy , and an act of patriotic self - devotion , call forth the same kind and the same degree of respectful admiration . The moral sensibility of the writer seems at once to be morbidly obtuse ...
... death of Leonidas . An act of dexterous perfidy , and an act of patriotic self - devotion , call forth the same kind and the same degree of respectful admiration . The moral sensibility of the writer seems at once to be morbidly obtuse ...
Pagina 99
... death Machiavelli feelingly deplores . After partaking of an elegant entertainment , they retire from the heat into the most shady recesses of the garden . Fabrizio is struck by the sight of some uncommon plants . Cosimo says that ...
... death Machiavelli feelingly deplores . After partaking of an elegant entertainment , they retire from the heat into the most shady recesses of the garden . Fabrizio is struck by the sight of some uncommon plants . Cosimo says that ...
Pagina 110
... death of Lorenzo de ' Medici . Machiavelli had , it seems , intended to continue his narrative to a later period . But his death prevented the execution of his design ; and the melancholy task of recording the desolation and shame of ...
... death of Lorenzo de ' Medici . Machiavelli had , it seems , intended to continue his narrative to a later period . But his death prevented the execution of his design ; and the melancholy task of recording the desolation and shame of ...
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