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... admiration . bility of the writer seems morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . characters altogether dissimilar are united in him . They are not merely joined , but inter woven . They are the warp and the woof of his mind ; and their ...
... admiration . bility of the writer seems morbidly obtuse and morbidly acute . characters altogether dissimilar are united in him . They are not merely joined , but inter woven . They are the warp and the woof of his mind ; and their ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 . " Nicias is , as Thersites says of ...
... 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 . " Nicias is , as Thersites says of ...
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... admiration of Virgil is absolute That critical discernment is not sufficient to idolatry . If indeed it had been ... admired was not that mighty imagination by giving faith to the creations of the imagina- which called a new world into ...
... admiration of Virgil is absolute That critical discernment is not sufficient to idolatry . If indeed it had been ... admired was not that mighty imagination by giving faith to the creations of the imagina- which called a new world into ...
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... admiration . If an uninitiated Raphael by the susceptibility of those to whom they are were to attempt a painting , it would be a mere addressed . We all know what pleasure a daub ; indeed , the connoisseurs say , that the wooden doll ...
... admiration . If an uninitiated Raphael by the susceptibility of those to whom they are were to attempt a painting , it would be a mere addressed . We all know what pleasure a daub ; indeed , the connoisseurs say , that the wooden doll ...
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