Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... Italian authors , such as Ariosto , and , à fortiori , Dante , he knew absolutely nothing . Passing to our own literature , it is certain that Addison was pro- foundly ignorant of Chaucer and Spenser . Milton only , and why ? simply ...
... Italian authors , such as Ariosto , and , à fortiori , Dante , he knew absolutely nothing . Passing to our own literature , it is certain that Addison was pro- foundly ignorant of Chaucer and Spenser . Milton only , and why ? simply ...
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... Italy . The four or five latter years of his life Shakspeare passed in dignified ease , in profound medi- tation , we may be sure , and in universal respect , at his native town of Stratford ; and there he died , on the 23d of April ...
... Italy . The four or five latter years of his life Shakspeare passed in dignified ease , in profound medi- tation , we may be sure , and in universal respect , at his native town of Stratford ; and there he died , on the 23d of April ...
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... Italian drama , indeed , we may say of the Greek , the dialogue proceeds always by independent speeches , replying ... Italy . And we may truly say , that were Shakspeare distinguished from them by this ル single feature of nature and ...
... Italian drama , indeed , we may say of the Greek , the dialogue proceeds always by independent speeches , replying ... Italy . And we may truly say , that were Shakspeare distinguished from them by this ル single feature of nature and ...
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... Italians , Camoens amongst those of Portugal , -Schiller amongst Germans , however ably they may have been naturalized in foreign languages , as all of those here mentioned ( excepting enly Ariosto ) have in one part of their works been ...
... Italians , Camoens amongst those of Portugal , -Schiller amongst Germans , however ably they may have been naturalized in foreign languages , as all of those here mentioned ( excepting enly Ariosto ) have in one part of their works been ...
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... Italian literature , meantime , Pope knew little or nothing ; and simply because he knew nothing of the language . Tasso , indeed , he admired ; and , which is singular , more than Ariosto . But we believe that he had read him only in ...
... Italian literature , meantime , Pope knew little or nothing ; and simply because he knew nothing of the language . Tasso , indeed , he admired ; and , which is singular , more than Ariosto . But we believe that he had read him only in ...
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