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... language of the play - bills , be withdrawn , to make room for the forthcoming novelties . do not admire them the more because they have appeared in dark ages . On the contrary we hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of ...
... language of the play - bills , be withdrawn , to make room for the forthcoming novelties . do not admire them the more because they have appeared in dark ages . On the contrary we hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of ...
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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 The genius of Petrarch was ...
... 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 The genius of Petrarch was ...
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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 ill suited to the production ...
... 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 ill suited to the production ...
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... language . It is as far su- following generation , led them to treat the perior to the Faithful Shepherdess , as the Asiatics with contempt . From the narrative Faithful Shepherdess is to the Aminta , or the of Herodotus , it should ...
... language . It is as far su- following generation , led them to treat the perior to the Faithful Shepherdess , as the Asiatics with contempt . From the narrative Faithful Shepherdess is to the Aminta , or the of Herodotus , it should ...
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... language . " The criticism was just . It is when Milton escapes from the shackles of the dialogue , when he is discharged from the labour of uniting two in - lustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other congruous styles , when he ...
... language . " The criticism was just . It is when Milton escapes from the shackles of the dialogue , when he is discharged from the labour of uniting two in - lustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other congruous styles , when he ...
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