Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold: Containing Dissertations on the Ruins of Rome; and an Essay on Italian LiteratureJohn Murray, 1818 - 576 стор. |
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... supposed mistress2 . The biographer has left it without doubt that the first cause of the punishment of Tasso was his desire to be occasionally , or altogether , free from his servitude at the court of Alfonso , and that the immediate ...
... supposed mistress2 . The biographer has left it without doubt that the first cause of the punishment of Tasso was his desire to be occasionally , or altogether , free from his servitude at the court of Alfonso , and that the immediate ...
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... supposed that the master felt much regret at giving his last lesson to so Pythagorean a pupil . The same gentle- man describes the poet as one whom he had seldom heard speak in any company , and as seldom seen smile . His daily temper ...
... supposed that the master felt much regret at giving his last lesson to so Pythagorean a pupil . The same gentle- man describes the poet as one whom he had seldom heard speak in any company , and as seldom seen smile . His daily temper ...
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... supposed the peculiar province of dull plodding writers : but as the man most willing to give scope to his imagination would hardly choose to have any other foundation for his feeling than truth , and as he would be incensed at having ...
... supposed the peculiar province of dull plodding writers : but as the man most willing to give scope to his imagination would hardly choose to have any other foundation for his feeling than truth , and as he would be incensed at having ...
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... supposed piety redeemed the actual violence of the Goths , and that respect for the vessels of St. Peter's shrine made Orosius almost the apologist of Alaric . The lamentations of St. Jerome are too loud to allow us to suppose the ...
... supposed piety redeemed the actual violence of the Goths , and that respect for the vessels of St. Peter's shrine made Orosius almost the apologist of Alaric . The lamentations of St. Jerome are too loud to allow us to suppose the ...
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... supposed to have suffered from his attack3 . From that pe- riod Rome was not forcibly entered , that is , not after a siege , until the fall of the Carlovingian race , when it was defended by Barbarians in ratori mentions that the ...
... supposed to have suffered from his attack3 . From that pe- riod Rome was not forcibly entered , that is , not after a siege , until the fall of the Carlovingian race , when it was defended by Barbarians in ratori mentions that the ...
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