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... Gothic Architecture . - The Opinions of his Con- temporaries . - Addison on Mountain Scenery . - His Agreement with the Men of his Generation . III . Condition of Society . IV . Steele's Life . - Early Periodicals . - Dunton's Athenian ...
... Gothic Architecture . - The Opinions of his Con- temporaries . - Addison on Mountain Scenery . - His Agreement with the Men of his Generation . III . Condition of Society . IV . Steele's Life . - Early Periodicals . - Dunton's Athenian ...
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... Gothic , and for cer- tain Italian painters ; the cool feeling of us , who are later born , for the Laocoon and the Apollo Belvedere , in com- parison with the admiration they called forth in the last century . Every generation , then ...
... Gothic , and for cer- tain Italian painters ; the cool feeling of us , who are later born , for the Laocoon and the Apollo Belvedere , in com- parison with the admiration they called forth in the last century . Every generation , then ...
Page 136
... Gothic Muse of Shakspeare , Fletcher , and Milton as lisping with stam- mering tongues , that nothing but the youth and rawness of the age could excuse . " became a more important person . Then , too , 136 English Literature .
... Gothic Muse of Shakspeare , Fletcher , and Milton as lisping with stam- mering tongues , that nothing but the youth and rawness of the age could excuse . " became a more important person . Then , too , 136 English Literature .
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... Gothic manner " ( p . 103 ) . • Addison says of the beautiful cathedral at Sienna : " There is nothing in this City so extraordinary as the Cathedral , which a man may view with pleasure after he has seen St. Peter's , tho ' ' tis quite ...
... Gothic manner " ( p . 103 ) . • Addison says of the beautiful cathedral at Sienna : " There is nothing in this City so extraordinary as the Cathedral , which a man may view with pleasure after he has seen St. Peter's , tho ' ' tis quite ...
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... Gothic , yet for the pre- ciousness of the materials , " etc. , " far exceeding any in Rome , St. Peter's hardly excepted . " " I much admired the splendid history of our Blessed Saviour , composed all of mosaic . . . . The roof is of ...
... Gothic , yet for the pre- ciousness of the materials , " etc. , " far exceeding any in Rome , St. Peter's hardly excepted . " " I much admired the splendid history of our Blessed Saviour , composed all of mosaic . . . . The roof is of ...
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