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Mr. W. has not attempted to render these last beautiful lines into English ; though it seems as if an almost literal translation would convey to the English reader some faint idea of the sentiments , if not of the language , of the ...
Mr. W. has not attempted to render these last beautiful lines into English ; though it seems as if an almost literal translation would convey to the English reader some faint idea of the sentiments , if not of the language , of the ...
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... in that of the antients : instead of transferring into their native congue the taste and spirit of the classics , they cupied , with the most aukward servility , the language and ideas suiied to an age so different from their own .
... in that of the antients : instead of transferring into their native congue the taste and spirit of the classics , they cupied , with the most aukward servility , the language and ideas suiied to an age so different from their own .
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... into the mind of Milton the idea of converting Adam into an epic personage , ' p.171 ; and Mr. Walker takes leave to observe , that Andreini and Lancetta were not the first Italian writers who dramatized the story of Adam and Eve .
... into the mind of Milton the idea of converting Adam into an epic personage , ' p.171 ; and Mr. Walker takes leave to observe , that Andreini and Lancetta were not the first Italian writers who dramatized the story of Adam and Eve .
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The Alcina of Fulvio Testi is said by Mr. Walker to have given birth to the opera : but this is an erroneous idea , if we may rely on the authority of Dr. Burney , who , in his History of Music , seems minutely to have traced it to a ...
The Alcina of Fulvio Testi is said by Mr. Walker to have given birth to the opera : but this is an erroneous idea , if we may rely on the authority of Dr. Burney , who , in his History of Music , seems minutely to have traced it to a ...
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Some of the fragments from the tragedies , which the author has analyzed , will perhaps impress the lovers of Italian poetry with higher ideas of its beauty and force , than the more renowned writings of Dante , Petrarca , Ariosto , and ...
Some of the fragments from the tragedies , which the author has analyzed , will perhaps impress the lovers of Italian poetry with higher ideas of its beauty and force , than the more renowned writings of Dante , Petrarca , Ariosto , and ...
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