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Page 6
... present , than on what they remotely suggest However strange , however grotesque , may be the appearance which Dante undertakes to de- scribe , he never shrinks from describing it . He gives us the shape , the colour , the sound , the ...
... present , than on what they remotely suggest However strange , however grotesque , may be the appearance which Dante undertakes to de- scribe , he never shrinks from describing it . He gives us the shape , the colour , the sound , the ...
Page 12
... present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent , for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent . The subsidies are ...
... present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent , for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent . The subsidies are ...
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... present time reached so high a point of it was eminently distinguished by general in- wealth and civilization as some parts of Italy tellectual activity . The study of the Latin had attained four hundred years ago . Histo - writers had ...
... present time reached so high a point of it was eminently distinguished by general in- wealth and civilization as some parts of Italy tellectual activity . The study of the Latin had attained four hundred years ago . Histo - writers had ...
Page 34
... present to the mean and incongruous addi- tions . The history does not appear to be the fruit of much industry or research . It is unques- tionably inaccurate . But it is elegant , lively , and picturesque , beyond any other in the Ita ...
... present to the mean and incongruous addi- tions . The history does not appear to be the fruit of much industry or research . It is unques- tionably inaccurate . But it is elegant , lively , and picturesque , beyond any other in the Ita ...
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... present age , childhood , as feeble as the former , and far Monti has successfully imitated the style of more hopeless . This is the age of critical Dante ; and something of the Elizabethan in- poetry , of poetry by courtesy , of poetry ...
... present age , childhood , as feeble as the former , and far Monti has successfully imitated the style of more hopeless . This is the age of critical Dante ; and something of the Elizabethan in- poetry , of poetry by courtesy , of poetry ...
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