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... grace , but has taken pains to exhibit her favourite work in the happiest and most alluring lights . Italy derives additional charms from its Sun , its Moon , and atmosphere . The air of its mountains is blue , and the rays of the Sun ...
... grace , but has taken pains to exhibit her favourite work in the happiest and most alluring lights . Italy derives additional charms from its Sun , its Moon , and atmosphere . The air of its mountains is blue , and the rays of the Sun ...
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... grace of novelty . The multitude of new faces a traveller sees , when he first arrives among a strange people , with whom he has no re- lation , except that of a common nature , are apt to depress him . A populous city is a dreary ...
... grace of novelty . The multitude of new faces a traveller sees , when he first arrives among a strange people , with whom he has no re- lation , except that of a common nature , are apt to depress him . A populous city is a dreary ...
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... grace , and hu- mour . In Italy , it is the fashion to be inatten- tive to the recitative parts of the opera , but when the orchestra pauses , and the actor comes forward to the front of the stage , and announces to the audience by his ...
... grace , and hu- mour . In Italy , it is the fashion to be inatten- tive to the recitative parts of the opera , but when the orchestra pauses , and the actor comes forward to the front of the stage , and announces to the audience by his ...
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... grace , and heightens the expression of elo- quent and living attitudes , is a natural lan- guage , in its effect analogous to those passion- ate and sentimental tones in the human voice , which constitute the charm of declamation . The ...
... grace , and heightens the expression of elo- quent and living attitudes , is a natural lan- guage , in its effect analogous to those passion- ate and sentimental tones in the human voice , which constitute the charm of declamation . The ...
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... , by which nature has charac- terised the Italian nation , the classick forms of antiquity , which they have continually before their eyes , naturally fashion . them to a standard of grace ; and , indeed , omitting the 46.
... , by which nature has charac- terised the Italian nation , the classick forms of antiquity , which they have continually before their eyes , naturally fashion . them to a standard of grace ; and , indeed , omitting the 46.
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