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... 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 their power to handle them , in command over their resources ...
... 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 their power to handle them , in command over their resources ...
Page 135
... feeling what was unpleasing in incongruous mixtures . Strong in the abundant but unsifted learning of his day , a style of learning , which in his case was strangely inaccurate , he not only mixed the past with the present , fairyland ...
... feeling what was unpleasing in incongruous mixtures . Strong in the abundant but unsifted learning of his day , a style of learning , which in his case was strangely inaccurate , he not only mixed the past with the present , fairyland ...
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... feeling on subjects of this kind , even when his lan- guage for the occasion is the chastest ; we detect in it the mood of the moment , perhaps spontaneous , perhaps put on , but in contradiction to the whole movement of the man's true ...
... feeling on subjects of this kind , even when his lan- guage for the occasion is the chastest ; we detect in it the mood of the moment , perhaps spontaneous , perhaps put on , but in contradiction to the whole movement of the man's true ...
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