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... taken a subject adapted to exhibit his peculiar talent to the greatest advantage . The Divine Comedy is a personal narrative . Dante is the eye - witness and ear- witness of that which he relates . He is the very man who has heard the ...
... taken a subject adapted to exhibit his peculiar talent to the greatest advantage . The Divine Comedy is a personal narrative . Dante is the eye - witness and ear- witness of that which he relates . He is the very man who has heard the ...
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... taken its character from their moral qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing in common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the ...
... taken its character from their moral qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing in common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the ...
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... taken . The But , we believe , there is a schism on this subject among cry against them was first raised beyond the Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick , Tho ' he gave his name to our Old Nick . Hudibras , Part III . Canto I. the ...
... taken . The But , we believe , there is a schism on this subject among cry against them was first raised beyond the Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick , Tho ' he gave his name to our Old Nick . Hudibras , Part III . Canto I. the ...
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... taken from his enemies . By his incomparable dexterity , he raised himself from the precarious and de- pendent situation of a military adventurer to the first throne of Italy . To such a man much was forgiven - hollow friendship ...
... taken from his enemies . By his incomparable dexterity , he raised himself from the precarious and de- pendent situation of a military adventurer to the first throne of Italy . To such a man much was forgiven - hollow friendship ...
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... taken place . But its progress was accelerated and its character modified by the political occurrences of the times , and par- ticularly by two events , the closing of the thea- tres under the Commonwealth , and the resto- ration of the ...
... taken place . But its progress was accelerated and its character modified by the political occurrences of the times , and par- ticularly by two events , the closing of the thea- tres under the Commonwealth , and the resto- ration of the ...
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