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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... writers in the Langue Romane , ' and the Italians . In two more we are to be conducted through Spain and Portugal . This author , like the former , had proposed to himself a plan of much greater mag- nitude than he has since found it ...
... writers in the Langue Romane , ' and the Italians . In two more we are to be conducted through Spain and Portugal . This author , like the former , had proposed to himself a plan of much greater mag- nitude than he has since found it ...
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... writers , for ages ; while the first faint and imperfect articulations of that speech which Dante raised at once to perfection , are with diffi- culty to be distinguished before the thirteenth century , to the conclusion of which he ...
... writers , for ages ; while the first faint and imperfect articulations of that speech which Dante raised at once to perfection , are with diffi- culty to be distinguished before the thirteenth century , to the conclusion of which he ...
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... writers in Italian , who preceded him , abound in latinisms , which we find only gradually to wear away as we descend to Pe- trarch and Bocaccio , who may be considered as the finishers of the modern structure . At the same time , so ...
... writers in Italian , who preceded him , abound in latinisms , which we find only gradually to wear away as we descend to Pe- trarch and Bocaccio , who may be considered as the finishers of the modern structure . At the same time , so ...
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... writers as the periods of the birth of Provençal poetry . Whatever may be the true date of its earliest efforts , ( which have undoubtedly perished , ) both these events must be considered as contributing in a very imme- diate degree to ...
... writers as the periods of the birth of Provençal poetry . Whatever may be the true date of its earliest efforts , ( which have undoubtedly perished , ) both these events must be considered as contributing in a very imme- diate degree to ...
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... writers , as the only legitimate vehicle of heroic poetry , in preference to that un- broken interlacement of rhymes which , it must be confessed , is too apt to fatigue the ear in the Divina Commedia . The Theseide possesses a yet ...
... writers , as the only legitimate vehicle of heroic poetry , in preference to that un- broken interlacement of rhymes which , it must be confessed , is too apt to fatigue the ear in the Divina Commedia . The Theseide possesses a yet ...
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