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... language of the play - bills , be withdrawn , to make room for the forthcoming novelties . We wish , however , to avail ourselves of the interest , transient as it may be , which this work has excited . The dexterous Capuchins never ...
... language of the play - bills , be withdrawn , to make room for the forthcoming novelties . We wish , however , to avail ourselves of the interest , transient as it may be , which this work has excited . The dexterous Capuchins never ...
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... language of modern Eu- rope , from which either pleasure or information was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the excellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch ...
... language of modern Eu- rope , from which either pleasure or information was then to be derived . He was perhaps the only great poet of later times who has been distinguished by the excellence of his Latin verse . The genius of Petrarch ...
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... language is an exotic , a far - fetched , costly , sickly imitation of that which elsewhere may be found in healthful and spontaneous perfection . The soils on which this rarity flourishes are in general as We often hear of the magical ...
... language is an exotic , a far - fetched , costly , sickly imitation of that which elsewhere may be found in healthful and spontaneous perfection . The soils on which this rarity flourishes are in general as We often hear of the magical ...
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... language . " The He gives us the shape , the colour , the sound , criticism was just . It is when Milton escapes the smell , the taste : he counts the numbers ; from the shackles of the dialogue , when he is he measures the size . His ...
... language . " The He gives us the shape , the colour , the sound , criticism was just . It is when Milton escapes the smell , the taste : he counts the numbers ; from the shackles of the dialogue , when he is he measures the size . His ...
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... language of the He- that is most lovely and delightful in the phy brew poet , " a land of darkness , as darkness sical and in the moral world . Neither Theo- itself , and where the light was as darkness ! " critus nor Ariosto had a ...
... language of the He- that is most lovely and delightful in the phy brew poet , " a land of darkness , as darkness sical and in the moral world . Neither Theo- itself , and where the light was as darkness ! " critus nor Ariosto had a ...
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