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... Italy to purify and christianise the desire for the beautiful which reigned in that age with irresistible power , and had raised the plastic arts to an extraordinary height of splendour . While Savonarola wished to suppress and destroy ...
... Italy to purify and christianise the desire for the beautiful which reigned in that age with irresistible power , and had raised the plastic arts to an extraordinary height of splendour . While Savonarola wished to suppress and destroy ...
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... Italy . Let us consider for a moment the condition of letters in Europe about the year 1578. For a whole century Italy had taken the lead and brought forth a number of writers whose glory illumined the world . She was fore- most in the ...
... Italy . Let us consider for a moment the condition of letters in Europe about the year 1578. For a whole century Italy had taken the lead and brought forth a number of writers whose glory illumined the world . She was fore- most in the ...
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... Italian . The three friends had some esteem for him , though it was tempered by reservations , as is shown by this note of E. K. to the Eleventh Eclogue : " Master George Gascoigne , a witty gentleman , and the very chief of our late ...
... Italian . The three friends had some esteem for him , though it was tempered by reservations , as is shown by this note of E. K. to the Eleventh Eclogue : " Master George Gascoigne , a witty gentleman , and the very chief of our late ...
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... Italy . He was blind to the splendour and importance of the French mediæval romances . Though inspired by ardent patriotism ( he is said to have coined the word patrie ) , he heartily despised the chivalric writing of Old France . Well ...
... Italy . He was blind to the splendour and importance of the French mediæval romances . Though inspired by ardent patriotism ( he is said to have coined the word patrie ) , he heartily despised the chivalric writing of Old France . Well ...
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... Italian , everywhere of the Latin . . . so now they have made an English tongue a gallimaufry or hodgepodge of all other speeches . " He rails at them as being unable to recog- nise and understand genuine old English words and calling ...
... Italian , everywhere of the Latin . . . so now they have made an English tongue a gallimaufry or hodgepodge of all other speeches . " He rails at them as being unable to recog- nise and understand genuine old English words and calling ...
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Page 41 - Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth; Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy work and know it not: Oh!
Page 80 - Unless she do him by the forelock take ; Bid her therefore herself soon ready make, To wait on Love amongst his lovely crew ; Where every one, that misseth then her make, Shall be by him amerced with penance due.
Page 82 - One day I wrote her name upon the strand; But came the waves, and washed it away: Again, I wrote it with a second hand; But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalize; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wiped out likewise.
Page 39 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight With cheerful grace and amiable sight; For of the soul the body form doth take; For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 116 - A little lowly hermitage it was, Down in a dale, hard by a forest's side, Far from resort of people, that did pass In travel to and fro : a little wide There was...
Page 87 - gin to shrill aloud Their merry music that resounds from far, The pipe, the tabor, and the trembling croud, That well agree withouten breach or jar. But most of all, the...
Page 91 - Doe burne, that to us wretched earthly clods In dreadful darknesse lend desired light: And all ye powers which in the same remayne, More then we men can fayne!
Page 68 - In which I have followed all the antique poets historical : first Homer, who in the persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governor and a virtuous man, the one in his Ilias, the other in his Odysseis...
Page 88 - Tell me, ye merchants' daughters, did ye see So fair a creature in your town before...
Page 88 - Almighty's view. Of her, ye virgins,. learn obedience, When so ye come into those holy places, To humble your proud faces. Bring her up to th...