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... the strength to grasp and exhibit them in a way to challenge comparison with what had been accomplished by the poetry and prose of Greece , Rome , and Italy . There had been poets in 1 * CHAPTER I SPENSER'S EARLY LIFE •
... the strength to grasp and exhibit them in a way to challenge comparison with what had been accomplished by the poetry and prose of Greece , Rome , and Italy . There had been poets in 1 * CHAPTER I SPENSER'S EARLY LIFE •
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... Italy , with Ariosto , Machiavelli , Guicciardini , with- out feeling the immense gap in point of culture , practice , and skill - the immense distance at which the Italians were ahead , in the finish and reach of their instruments , in ...
... Italy , with Ariosto , Machiavelli , Guicciardini , with- out feeling the immense gap in point of culture , practice , and skill - the immense distance at which the Italians were ahead , in the finish and reach of their instruments , in ...
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... Italian original ; and if Spenser was the translator , it is a curious illustration of the fashionableness of Italian literature in the days of Elizabeth , that a school - boy just leaving Mer- chant Taylors ' should have been so much ...
... Italian original ; and if Spenser was the translator , it is a curious illustration of the fashionableness of Italian literature in the days of Elizabeth , that a school - boy just leaving Mer- chant Taylors ' should have been so much ...
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... Italian authors then so fashionable , and regard- ed as a high authority on questions of criticism and taste . . Except to students of Elizabethan literary history , he has become an utterly obscure personage ; and he has not usu- ally ...
... Italian authors then so fashionable , and regard- ed as a high authority on questions of criticism and taste . . Except to students of Elizabethan literary history , he has become an utterly obscure personage ; and he has not usu- ally ...
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... Italian highly regarded : the Latin and Greek but lightly . The Queen Mother at the beginning or end of every conference : all inquisitive after news : new books , new fashions , new laws , new officers , and some after new elements ...
... Italian highly regarded : the Latin and Greek but lightly . The Queen Mother at the beginning or end of every conference : all inquisitive after news : new books , new fashions , new laws , new officers , and some after new elements ...
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