Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 896
... Italy as far as mere ex- cellence is concerned , while in the middle of the Fifteenth England was rude , and Italy cultured ; and even while the change was preparing , by one accident or another came a great access of discoveries of the ...
... Italy as far as mere ex- cellence is concerned , while in the middle of the Fifteenth England was rude , and Italy cultured ; and even while the change was preparing , by one accident or another came a great access of discoveries of the ...
Page 897
... Italy was any art being done that was of any worth . The conquered North had gained nothing . from Italy save an imitation of its worst extravagance , and all that saved the art of England from nothingness was a tradition of the earlier ...
... Italy was any art being done that was of any worth . The conquered North had gained nothing . from Italy save an imitation of its worst extravagance , and all that saved the art of England from nothingness was a tradition of the earlier ...
Page 942
... Italian nature or of Raphael's art in recount- ing them ) , the richly - planted lowlands , the sensitive moun- tain lines in flight one beyond the other into clear distance , the cool yet glowing atmosphere , the romantic morsels of ...
... Italian nature or of Raphael's art in recount- ing them ) , the richly - planted lowlands , the sensitive moun- tain lines in flight one beyond the other into clear distance , the cool yet glowing atmosphere , the romantic morsels of ...
Page 944
... Italian art , the so devout Umbrian soul finding there its purest expression , still untroubled by the naturalism , the intel- lectualism , the antique paganism , then astir in the artistic soul everywhere else in Italy . The lovely ...
... Italian art , the so devout Umbrian soul finding there its purest expression , still untroubled by the naturalism , the intel- lectualism , the antique paganism , then astir in the artistic soul everywhere else in Italy . The lovely ...
Page 945
... Italian towns perhaps most deeply impressed with medieval character - an impress it still retains - grotesque , parti ... Italy . There were points , as we saw , at which the school of Perugia was behind its day . Amid those intensely ...
... Italian towns perhaps most deeply impressed with medieval character - an impress it still retains - grotesque , parti ... Italy . There were points , as we saw , at which the school of Perugia was behind its day . Amid those intensely ...
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