Modern Eloquence, Volume 4Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 43
... Italians had , the art of Dante and Michael Angelo - this art , with the training which it gives and the standard which it sets up , the French have never had . On the other hand , they had a dose of German seriousness , a Germanic bent ...
... Italians had , the art of Dante and Michael Angelo - this art , with the training which it gives and the standard which it sets up , the French have never had . On the other hand , they had a dose of German seriousness , a Germanic bent ...
Page 62
... Italy , from Hungary , from Austria , from Germany , from Russia ; we have a vast population from all the Scandinavian lands , from Scotland , from England , and occasionally from Ire- land . Let them come ; if you don't want them , we ...
... Italy , from Hungary , from Austria , from Germany , from Russia ; we have a vast population from all the Scandinavian lands , from Scotland , from England , and occasionally from Ire- land . Let them come ; if you don't want them , we ...
Page 88
... Italy . He saved the poet Crabbe from starvation and despair , and thus secured to the country one who owns the unrivalled distinction of having been the favorite poet of the three greatest intellectual factors of the age ( scientific ...
... Italy . He saved the poet Crabbe from starvation and despair , and thus secured to the country one who owns the unrivalled distinction of having been the favorite poet of the three greatest intellectual factors of the age ( scientific ...
Page 187
... Italians . A gifted noble people ; a people of wild strong feelings , and of iron restraint over these : the characteristic of nobleminded- ness , of genius . The wild Bedouin welcomes the stranger to his tent , as one having right to ...
... Italians . A gifted noble people ; a people of wild strong feelings , and of iron restraint over these : the characteristic of nobleminded- ness , of genius . The wild Bedouin welcomes the stranger to his tent , as one having right to ...
Page 189
... Italy . It had at one time a population of 100,000 ; buyers , forwarders of those Eastern and Western products ; importers for their own behoof of provisions and corn . The government was a kind of irregular aristocratic republic , not ...
... Italy . It had at one time a population of 100,000 ; buyers , forwarders of those Eastern and Western products ; importers for their own behoof of provisions and corn . The government was a kind of irregular aristocratic republic , not ...
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