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... French Protestant . It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Italians of those times , that we must seek for the real explanation of what seems most mysterious in the life and writings of this remarkable man . As this ...
... French Protestant . It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Italians of those times , that we must seek for the real explanation of what seems most mysterious in the life and writings of this remarkable man . As this ...
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... French terval between the age of sublime invention stage resemble the waxen gentlemen and ladies in the window of a perfumer , rouged , curled , and bedizened , but fixed in such stiff attitudes , and staring with eyes expressive of ...
... French terval between the age of sublime invention stage resemble the waxen gentlemen and ladies in the window of a perfumer , rouged , curled , and bedizened , but fixed in such stiff attitudes , and staring with eyes expressive of ...
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... French manners fascinated him . With the political maxims and the so- cial habits of his favourite people , he adopted their taste in composition ; and , when seated on the throne , soon rendered it fashionable , partly by direct ...
... French manners fascinated him . With the political maxims and the so- cial habits of his favourite people , he adopted their taste in composition ; and , when seated on the throne , soon rendered it fashionable , partly by direct ...
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... French prophets , courted inspiration , by mimicking the writhings , swoonings , and gasp- ings , which they considered as its symptoins , he attempted , by affected fits of poetical fury , to bring on a real paroxysm ; and , like them ...
... French prophets , courted inspiration , by mimicking the writhings , swoonings , and gasp- ings , which they considered as its symptoins , he attempted , by affected fits of poetical fury , to bring on a real paroxysm ; and , like them ...
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... French cuirassiers as a pro- digy ; yet we read , without the least disgust , how Godfrey slew his thousands , and Rinaldo his ten thousands . Within the last hundred years stories about China and Bantam , which ough not to have imposed ...
... French cuirassiers as a pro- digy ; yet we read , without the least disgust , how Godfrey slew his thousands , and Rinaldo his ten thousands . Within the last hundred years stories about China and Bantam , which ough not to have imposed ...
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