Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 22Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1851 |
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... death in 1252. In this passage from poetry to prose , from the traditional to the historical , the early portions are tinctured with the un- profitable and legendary learning of the pe- riod ; but towards the conclusion an approach is ...
... death in 1252. In this passage from poetry to prose , from the traditional to the historical , the early portions are tinctured with the un- profitable and legendary learning of the pe- riod ; but towards the conclusion an approach is ...
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... Deaths " of the Conde de Niebla and Alvaro de Luna . Juan de Mena , as a poet , was deficient in the true mens divinior ... death into the Bibliothèque du Roi at Paris , and has never yet been printed , although long announced by Mons ...
... Deaths " of the Conde de Niebla and Alvaro de Luna . Juan de Mena , as a poet , was deficient in the true mens divinior ... death into the Bibliothèque du Roi at Paris , and has never yet been printed , although long announced by Mons ...
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... death of his father ; in them the pathos and sim- plicity of the earlier ballads is tinged with a melancholy leaf in the sere tone of a " passing bell tenderly touched " on the mutability of love and earthly happiness . Some transla ...
... death of his father ; in them the pathos and sim- plicity of the earlier ballads is tinged with a melancholy leaf in the sere tone of a " passing bell tenderly touched " on the mutability of love and earthly happiness . Some transla ...
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... death . | hateful then to the aesthetic Leo X. than now to the liberal Pio Nono . The second Index Expurgatorius ever printed was the Spanish one of Charles V. in 1546 : under his son Philip II . a priestly censorship was so firmly ...
... death . | hateful then to the aesthetic Leo X. than now to the liberal Pio Nono . The second Index Expurgatorius ever printed was the Spanish one of Charles V. in 1546 : under his son Philip II . a priestly censorship was so firmly ...
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... death , so they pelt him with lead till his hide is worthless . On one occasion , a man having dismounted to discharge his gun , was knocked over by the lion before he could regain his saddle . The brute did not injure him , but stood ...
... death , so they pelt him with lead till his hide is worthless . On one occasion , a man having dismounted to discharge his gun , was knocked over by the lion before he could regain his saddle . The brute did not injure him , but stood ...
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