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... taken schylus for his model , he would have given himself up to the lyric inspiration , and poured out profusely all the treasures of his mind , without bestow- ing a thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work ...
... taken schylus for his model , he would have given himself up to the lyric inspiration , and poured out profusely all the treasures of his mind , without bestow- ing a thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work ...
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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 ; and then he strikes for the first and last time . Military courage , the boast of the sottish German , the frivolous and prating Frenchman , the roman- tic and arrogant Spaniard , he neither possesses nor values . He shuns ...
... taken ; and then he strikes for the first and last time . Military courage , the boast of the sottish German , the frivolous and prating Frenchman , the roman- tic and arrogant Spaniard , he neither possesses nor values . He shuns ...
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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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... taken and the other is left . uncut ; the magazines and newspapers fill their columns with extracts . In the mean time his- tories of great empires , written by men of eminent ability , lie unread on the shelves of ostentatious ...
... taken and the other is left . uncut ; the magazines and newspapers fill their columns with extracts . In the mean time his- tories of great empires , written by men of eminent ability , lie unread on the shelves of ostentatious ...
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