Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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Page 30
... Italian tongue , in many other respects inferior to our own , that the language of poetry is more distinct from that ... Italians have gained a poetic idiom , as the Greeks before them had obtained from the same causes , with greater and ...
... Italian tongue , in many other respects inferior to our own , that the language of poetry is more distinct from that ... Italians have gained a poetic idiom , as the Greeks before them had obtained from the same causes , with greater and ...
Page 62
... Italian , is a question of very subordinate importance . The number of such words would be small indeed , in our language ; and even in the Italian and Greek , they consist not so much of different words , as of slight differences in ...
... Italian , is a question of very subordinate importance . The number of such words would be small indeed , in our language ; and even in the Italian and Greek , they consist not so much of different words , as of slight differences in ...
Page 212
... Italy the capabilities of all that is most beautiful and magnificent in architecture . It might have been the rival of Venice , and it is huddle and ugliness , stench and stagnation . The Jungfer Stieg ( i . e . young Ladies Walk ) to ...
... Italy the capabilities of all that is most beautiful and magnificent in architecture . It might have been the rival of Venice , and it is huddle and ugliness , stench and stagnation . The Jungfer Stieg ( i . e . young Ladies Walk ) to ...
Page 217
... Italian pun , and an interesting anecdote . When Buonaparte was in Italy , having been irritated by some instance of perfidy , he said in a loud and vehement tone , in a public company- " ' tis a true proverb , gli Italiani tutti ...
... Italian pun , and an interesting anecdote . When Buonaparte was in Italy , having been irritated by some instance of perfidy , he said in a loud and vehement tone , in a public company- " ' tis a true proverb , gli Italiani tutti ...
Page 295
... Italian poet perused a page of Cowley's Davideis , contrasted with the enthusiasm with which he first ran through , and then read aloud , Milton's Mansus and Ad Patrem . Me longus silendi Edit amor ; facilesque Luctus Hausit medullas 295.
... Italian poet perused a page of Cowley's Davideis , contrasted with the enthusiasm with which he first ran through , and then read aloud , Milton's Mansus and Ad Patrem . Me longus silendi Edit amor ; facilesque Luctus Hausit medullas 295.
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