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... sure , with the Augustan age . Thus it was with the age of Raphael and Ariosto , of Aldus and Vida . Machiavelli deeply regretted the misfortunes of his country , and clearly discerned the cause and the remedy . It was the military ...
... sure , with the Augustan age . Thus it was with the age of Raphael and Ariosto , of Aldus and Vida . Machiavelli deeply regretted the misfortunes of his country , and clearly discerned the cause and the remedy . It was the military ...
Page 38
... sure , if I had seen a ghost , I should have looked in the very same manner , and done just as he did . And then , to be sure , in that scene , as you called it , be tween him and his mother , where you told me he acted so fine , why ...
... sure , if I had seen a ghost , I should have looked in the very same manner , and done just as he did . And then , to be sure , in that scene , as you called it , be tween him and his mother , where you told me he acted so fine , why ...
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... sure proof that Menander was not a quarter Aristophanes . The literature of the Romans was merely a continuation of the literature of the Greeks . The pupils started from the point at which their masters had in the course of many gene ...
... sure proof that Menander was not a quarter Aristophanes . The literature of the Romans was merely a continuation of the literature of the Greeks . The pupils started from the point at which their masters had in the course of many gene ...
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... sure that this is not in some du gree to be attributed to his want of sight . The imagination is notoriously most active when the external world is shut out . In sleep its illusions are perfect . They produce all the effect of realities ...
... sure that this is not in some du gree to be attributed to his want of sight . The imagination is notoriously most active when the external world is shut out . In sleep its illusions are perfect . They produce all the effect of realities ...
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... sure triumphant , Sprat refused to admit a mo- nument of John Philips into Westminster Ab- bey , because , in the epitaph , the name of Mil- ton incidentally occurred . The walls of his church , he declared , should not be polluted by ...
... sure triumphant , Sprat refused to admit a mo- nument of John Philips into Westminster Ab- bey , because , in the epitaph , the name of Mil- ton incidentally occurred . The walls of his church , he declared , should not be polluted by ...
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