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... Italians to understand their Dante , which has ' helped the Spaniards to arrange their Romances , and which is now ' and always helping the French to explore the treasures of their me- ' diæval literature . We comprehend and love ...
... Italians to understand their Dante , which has ' helped the Spaniards to arrange their Romances , and which is now ' and always helping the French to explore the treasures of their me- ' diæval literature . We comprehend and love ...
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... Italian and German , with Music by BELLINI . FRENCH TRANSLATIONS . Romeo et Juliette , en vers libres .. Paris , 1771 Romeo et Juliette , adapté à la scène Française par Ducis Paris , 1772 Romeo et Juliette , ou Amours et infortunes de ...
... Italian and German , with Music by BELLINI . FRENCH TRANSLATIONS . Romeo et Juliette , en vers libres .. Paris , 1771 Romeo et Juliette , adapté à la scène Française par Ducis Paris , 1772 Romeo et Juliette , ou Amours et infortunes de ...
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... Italy , and was perhaps a mitigated form of the greater insult of making the fig or fico , that is , thrusting out ... Italian manner , biting his thumbs , went away . " STA . This contemptuous action , though obsolete in this country ...
... Italy , and was perhaps a mitigated form of the greater insult of making the fig or fico , that is , thrusting out ... Italian manner , biting his thumbs , went away . " STA . This contemptuous action , though obsolete in this country ...
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... Italian . Scott has made the cry familiar to us in " The Fortunes of Nigel ; " and when the citizens of Verona here raise it , we involuntarily think of the old watch - maker's hatch - door in Fleet Street and Jin Vin and Tunstall ...
... Italian . Scott has made the cry familiar to us in " The Fortunes of Nigel ; " and when the citizens of Verona here raise it , we involuntarily think of the old watch - maker's hatch - door in Fleet Street and Jin Vin and Tunstall ...
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... Italian story . COLERIDGE ( Lit. Rem . vol . II , p . 151 , ed . 1836 ) . With his accustomed judgment , Shakespeare has begun by placing before us a lively picture of all the impulses of the play ; and as nature ever presents two sides ...
... Italian story . COLERIDGE ( Lit. Rem . vol . II , p . 151 , ed . 1836 ) . With his accustomed judgment , Shakespeare has begun by placing before us a lively picture of all the impulses of the play ; and as nature ever presents two sides ...
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