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... Petrarch and Laura . Yes , I have seen them , and am almost sorry for it , so agreeable do we find the illusions of our fancy . Petrarch appears with a rusty doctor's hood ; with a LETTER VII . 27.
... Petrarch and Laura . Yes , I have seen them , and am almost sorry for it , so agreeable do we find the illusions of our fancy . Petrarch appears with a rusty doctor's hood ; with a LETTER VII . 27.
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Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807 Anna Seward. Petrarch appears with a rusty doctor's hood ; with a sanguine high - fed face , a harsh eye , and , I had almost said , with a libidinous countenance . Laura sticks up , stiff as an ...
Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807 Anna Seward. Petrarch appears with a rusty doctor's hood ; with a sanguine high - fed face , a harsh eye , and , I had almost said , with a libidinous countenance . Laura sticks up , stiff as an ...
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... Petrarch and Laura , in the Castle of Sommane , ought to make people , whose personal represen- tation is likely to interest generations yet unborn , careful how they leave behind them disagreeable pictures , which must hereafter ...
... Petrarch and Laura , in the Castle of Sommane , ought to make people , whose personal represen- tation is likely to interest generations yet unborn , careful how they leave behind them disagreeable pictures , which must hereafter ...
Page 78
... of that immortal fountain and valley , which had witnessed the beauty of Laura , and heard the songs of Petrarch , " That spread the fame of his disastrous love . " Adieu ! LETTER XIX . To MRS G Lichfield , Aug. 27 78 LETTER XVIII .
... of that immortal fountain and valley , which had witnessed the beauty of Laura , and heard the songs of Petrarch , " That spread the fame of his disastrous love . " Adieu ! LETTER XIX . To MRS G Lichfield , Aug. 27 78 LETTER XVIII .
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... Petrarch . With them , amongst others , have I often combated the unmeaning assertion of pedants , that the legiti- mate sonnet suits not the genius of our language , producing those * Avignon little gems as its per- fect refutation ...
... Petrarch . With them , amongst others , have I often combated the unmeaning assertion of pedants , that the legiti- mate sonnet suits not the genius of our language , producing those * Avignon little gems as its per- fect refutation ...
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