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... Italian origin ; but having been treated in its most ordina- ry light , with the degradation of the God into a mere critic or chairman , it has hither- to received none of those touches of paint- ing , and combinations of the familiar ...
... Italian origin ; but having been treated in its most ordina- ry light , with the degradation of the God into a mere critic or chairman , it has hither- to received none of those touches of paint- ing , and combinations of the familiar ...
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... Italian writers , as well as those of his own country , that he had obtained no perception of what is musical beyond that of mere smoothness . Upon this note Mr. Upton very justly observes , that " as nothing is so tiresome as verse in ...
... Italian writers , as well as those of his own country , that he had obtained no perception of what is musical beyond that of mere smoothness . Upon this note Mr. Upton very justly observes , that " as nothing is so tiresome as verse in ...
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... Italians repeated the story , most likely from that want of information with which critics are too apt to be satisfied when they speak of the literature of other na- tions ; and everywhere , in the writings of the last hundred years ...
... Italians repeated the story , most likely from that want of information with which critics are too apt to be satisfied when they speak of the literature of other na- tions ; and everywhere , in the writings of the last hundred years ...
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... - first , that although he had not genius enough to revive the taste in his poetry , he has been the quickest of our late writers to point out the great superiority of the Italian school over the French ; and , second , that he has been 51.
... - first , that although he had not genius enough to revive the taste in his poetry , he has been the quickest of our late writers to point out the great superiority of the Italian school over the French ; and , second , that he has been 51.
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... Italy , and who was such a painter himself , it is to be remembered to the honour of all our poets , great and small , that they have shown a just anxiety for the appearance of the sister art , And felt a brother's louging to embrace At ...
... Italy , and who was such a painter himself , it is to be remembered to the honour of all our poets , great and small , that they have shown a just anxiety for the appearance of the sister art , And felt a brother's louging to embrace At ...
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