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Page 20
... admiration . The moral sensi composed his manual of Kingcraft , he suffered bility of the writer seems at once to be imprisonment and torture in the cause of morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two public liberty . It seems ...
... admiration . The moral sensi composed his manual of Kingcraft , he suffered bility of the writer seems at once to be imprisonment and torture in the cause of morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . Two public liberty . It seems ...
Page 22
... admiration of learning revenue of the republic amounted to three and genius became almost an idolatry among hundred thousand florins , a sum which , allow- the people of Italy . Kings and republics , car- ing for the depreciation of the ...
... admiration of learning revenue of the republic amounted to three and genius became almost an idolatry among hundred thousand florins , a sum which , allow- the people of Italy . Kings and republics , car- ing for the depreciation of the ...
Page 28
... admirable language , that such indiscriminate prodigality was " from the purpose of playing , whose end , both at the first and now , was , and is , to hold , as it were , the mirror up to Nature . " but to a foreign reader sometimes a ...
... admirable language , that such indiscriminate prodigality was " from the purpose of playing , whose end , both at the first and now , was , and is , to hold , as it were , the mirror up to Nature . " but to a foreign reader sometimes a ...
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... admiration of Virgil is absolute idolatry . If indeed it had been excited by the elegant , splendid and harmonious ... admired was not that mighty imagination which called a new world into existence , and made all its sights and sounds ...
... admiration of Virgil is absolute idolatry . If indeed it had been excited by the elegant , splendid and harmonious ... admired was not that mighty imagination which called a new world into existence , and made all its sights and sounds ...
Page 39
... admiration . If an uninitiated Raphael were to attempt a painting , it would be a mere daub ; indeed , the connoisseurs say , that the ear y works of Raphael are little better . Yet , who can attribute this to want of imagination ...
... admiration . If an uninitiated Raphael were to attempt a painting , it would be a mere daub ; indeed , the connoisseurs say , that the ear y works of Raphael are little better . Yet , who can attribute this to want of imagination ...
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