The Quarterly Review, Volume 11William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1814 |
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... language must natu- rally be the first object of inquiry to those who are desirous of at- taining a just notion of Italian literature ; and it undoubtedly adds to the interest of this inquiry , when we reflect that the very lan- guage ...
... language must natu- rally be the first object of inquiry to those who are desirous of at- taining a just notion of Italian literature ; and it undoubtedly adds to the interest of this inquiry , when we reflect that the very lan- guage ...
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... language of Terence and Cicero , of Horace and Virgil ; and it is this same language , which , after so brilliant an empire , terminated by so long and dismal a declension , mingled itself anew with its ancient Celtic , the common ...
... language of Terence and Cicero , of Horace and Virgil ; and it is this same language , which , after so brilliant an empire , terminated by so long and dismal a declension , mingled itself anew with its ancient Celtic , the common ...
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... languages , but the strongest language is often that of the weakest people , and therefore takes place of that of the con- querors . It was thus with the Latin language , which the barbarous con- querors of Italy successively agreed to ...
... languages , but the strongest language is often that of the weakest people , and therefore takes place of that of the con- querors . It was thus with the Latin language , which the barbarous con- querors of Italy successively agreed to ...
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... language , considered as a literary dialect , affords two objects of contemplation equally striking , in its sudden rise , and its as sudden extinction . " " Lorsque , dans le dixième siècle , ' says M. Sismondi , les peuples du midi de ...
... language , considered as a literary dialect , affords two objects of contemplation equally striking , in its sudden rise , and its as sudden extinction . " " Lorsque , dans le dixième siècle , ' says M. Sismondi , les peuples du midi de ...
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... language itself , as a literary language , had ex- pired ; and one only relique of the science gaie appears to have survived the lapse of ages in the singular institution of the Flora ! Games at Toulouse , which was in its origin no A 4 ...
... language itself , as a literary language , had ex- pired ; and one only relique of the science gaie appears to have survived the lapse of ages in the singular institution of the Flora ! Games at Toulouse , which was in its origin no A 4 ...
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