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... known ; Petrarch quotes from two of them , and gives an outline of a third " as a proof of the poet's skill in the delineation of character . He is familiar with the comedies of Terence , and the tragedies of Seneca ; he rarely refers ...
... known ; Petrarch quotes from two of them , and gives an outline of a third " as a proof of the poet's skill in the delineation of character . He is familiar with the comedies of Terence , and the tragedies of Seneca ; he rarely refers ...
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... see Ducange , s . v . ) . The story , not unnaturally , meets with protest from the learned historian of Monte Cassino , Tosti's Storia , iii 99 . well - known manuscript of the Histories and the latter CHAP . I. ] 13 BOCCACCIO .
... see Ducange , s . v . ) . The story , not unnaturally , meets with protest from the learned historian of Monte Cassino , Tosti's Storia , iii 99 . well - known manuscript of the Histories and the latter CHAP . I. ] 13 BOCCACCIO .
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John Edwin Sandys. well - known manuscript of the Histories and the latter part of the Annals of Tacitus , which in some mysterious manner came into the possession of Niccoli before 14271 , and passed into the Medicean Library after his ...
John Edwin Sandys. well - known manuscript of the Histories and the latter part of the Annals of Tacitus , which in some mysterious manner came into the possession of Niccoli before 14271 , and passed into the Medicean Library after his ...
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... known a more loveable being than Boccaccio2 . " Boccaccio was not only the earliest modern student of Tacitus . He was also the first of modern men to study Greek in Italy , and indeed in Europe . Part of his Greek lore he derived from ...
... known a more loveable being than Boccaccio2 . " Boccaccio was not only the earliest modern student of Tacitus . He was also the first of modern men to study Greek in Italy , and indeed in Europe . Part of his Greek lore he derived from ...
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... known in the north of Italy ; and Chrysoloras and the aged Demetrius Cydonius had hardly landed in Venice as envoys of Manuel Palaeologus ( 1393 ) , when two of the noble sons of Florence hastened to obtain the benefit of their teaching ...
... known in the north of Italy ; and Chrysoloras and the aged Demetrius Cydonius had hardly landed in Venice as envoys of Manuel Palaeologus ( 1393 ) , when two of the noble sons of Florence hastened to obtain the benefit of their teaching ...
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Page 338 - To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar: they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience...
Page 339 - So that these four causes concurring, the admiration of ancient authors, the hate of the schoolmen, the exact study of languages, and the efficacy of preaching, did bring in an affectionate study of eloquence and copie of speech, which then began to flourish. This...
Page 437 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 339 - ... was enforced to awake all antiquity, and to call former times to his succours to make a party against the present time : so that the ancient authors, both in divinity and in humanity, which had long time slept in libraries, began generally to be read and revolved.
Page 339 - This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the school-men, who having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading ; but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning,...
Page 281 - ... breath's late exercise Had dealt too roughly with her tender throat, Yet summons all her sweet powers for a note. Alas, in vain! for while, sweet soul, she tries To measure all those wild diversities Of chatt'ring strings, by the small size of one Poor simple voice, raised in a natural tone, She fails, and failing grieves, and grieving dies. She dies, and leaves her life the victor's prize, Falling upon his lute; O fit to have, That lived so sweetly, dead, so sweet a grave!
Page 347 - When all these employments are well conquered, then will the choice histories, heroic poems, and Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument with all the famous political orations offer themselves; which if they were not only read, but some of them got by memory and solemnly pronounced with right accent and grace as might be taught, would endue them even with the spirit and vigor of Demosthenes or Cicero, Euripides or Sophocles.
Page 438 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 437 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 436 - The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader may smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman empire.