A Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and ModernCharles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Charles Henry Warner, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner International Society, 1897 - Authors |
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Page 9778
... perhaps than we now usually deem him , Sir William Davenant , - also wrote masques in conjunction with Inigo Jones . Whether it was that Inigo had a good and inspiring influence on the Oxford vintner's son , whom old report has ...
... perhaps than we now usually deem him , Sir William Davenant , - also wrote masques in conjunction with Inigo Jones . Whether it was that Inigo had a good and inspiring influence on the Oxford vintner's son , whom old report has ...
Page 9781
... perhaps there cannot be , any translation of his masterpieces which in respect of style would be judged , by those most competent to judge , to be worthy of him . From the smoothness and harmonious flow of his sentences , Voltaire named ...
... perhaps there cannot be , any translation of his masterpieces which in respect of style would be judged , by those most competent to judge , to be worthy of him . From the smoothness and harmonious flow of his sentences , Voltaire named ...
Page 9789
... Perhaps this bewitching felicity was never more striking than in the exordium of his first sermon before the same Louis XIV . , when , knowing that a reputation for austerity had preceded him , he made his début before that glittering ...
... Perhaps this bewitching felicity was never more striking than in the exordium of his first sermon before the same Louis XIV . , when , knowing that a reputation for austerity had preceded him , he made his début before that glittering ...
Page 9792
... perhaps without a parallel in all literature for boldness and terrible severity in scor- ing the sin of unchastity , was that on the ' Prodigal Son , ' pronounced before Louis XIV . in the chapel at Versailles during the ' Grand Carême ...
... perhaps without a parallel in all literature for boldness and terrible severity in scor- ing the sin of unchastity , was that on the ' Prodigal Son , ' pronounced before Louis XIV . in the chapel at Versailles during the ' Grand Carême ...
Page 9804
... perhaps to what was truly admirable , —the learned , the connoisseurs , were not deceived . They greeted him as a master writer , an unequaled story - teller , who in spite of Zola pre- served the classic virtues - precision , clearness ...
... perhaps to what was truly admirable , —the learned , the connoisseurs , were not deceived . They greeted him as a master writer , an unequaled story - teller , who in spite of Zola pre- served the classic virtues - precision , clearness ...
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