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... soon as he attracts notice to his personal feel- ings , the illusion is broken . The effect is as unpleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter , or the en - tra's poet , " sometimes reminds us of the beau ...
... soon as he attracts notice to his personal feel- ings , the illusion is broken . The effect is as unpleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter , or the en - tra's poet , " sometimes reminds us of the beau ...
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... soon be able to bear it . In a few years men learn to reason . The extreme violence of opinion subsides . Hostile theorics correct each other . The scat- tered eleinents of truth cease to conflict , and begin to coalesce . And at length ...
... soon be able to bear it . In a few years men learn to reason . The extreme violence of opinion subsides . Hostile theorics correct each other . The scat- tered eleinents of truth cease to conflict , and begin to coalesce . And at length ...
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... soon as they appear . He is just idiot enough to be an object , not of pity or horror , but of ridicule . He bears some resemblance to poor Calandrino , whose mishaps , as recounted by Boccaccio , have made all Europe merry for more ...
... soon as they appear . He is just idiot enough to be an object , not of pity or horror , but of ridicule . He bears some resemblance to poor Calandrino , whose mishaps , as recounted by Boccaccio , have made all Europe merry for more ...
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... soon have conducted our ancestors to a sounder code of criticism . There were already strong signs of improve ' ment . Our prose had at length worked itself clear from those quaint conceits which still deformed almost every metrical ...
... soon have conducted our ancestors to a sounder code of criticism . There were already strong signs of improve ' ment . Our prose had at length worked itself clear from those quaint conceits which still deformed almost every metrical ...
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... soon as we enter the regions of Tragedy , we find a great change . Then is no lack of the fine sentiment there . Metastasio is surpassed in his own department . Scuderi is out - scuderied . We are introduced to people whose proceedings ...
... soon as we enter the regions of Tragedy , we find a great change . Then is no lack of the fine sentiment there . Metastasio is surpassed in his own department . Scuderi is out - scuderied . We are introduced to people whose proceedings ...
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