Lectures on the English PoetsWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 255 páginas |
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... Boccaccio . Chaucer and Dryden have translated some of the last into English rhyme , but the essence and the power of poetry was there before . That which lifts the spirit above the earth , which draws the soul out of itself with ...
... Boccaccio . Chaucer and Dryden have translated some of the last into English rhyme , but the essence and the power of poetry was there before . That which lifts the spirit above the earth , which draws the soul out of itself with ...
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... Boccaccio . Chaucer and Dryden have translated some of the last into English rhyme , but the essence and the power of poetry was there before . That which lifts the spirit above the earth , which draws the soul out of itself with ...
... Boccaccio . Chaucer and Dryden have translated some of the last into English rhyme , but the essence and the power of poetry was there before . That which lifts the spirit above the earth , which draws the soul out of itself with ...
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... Boccaccio ; and is said to have had a personal interview with one of these , Petrarch . He was connected , by marriage , with the famous John of Gaunt , through whose interest he was intro- duced into several public employments ...
... Boccaccio ; and is said to have had a personal interview with one of these , Petrarch . He was connected , by marriage , with the famous John of Gaunt , through whose interest he was intro- duced into several public employments ...
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... Boccaccio . In depth of simple pathos , and intensity of conception , never swerving from his subject , I think no other writer comes near him , not even the Greek tragedians . I wish to be allowed to give one or two instances of what I ...
... Boccaccio . In depth of simple pathos , and intensity of conception , never swerving from his subject , I think no other writer comes near him , not even the Greek tragedians . I wish to be allowed to give one or two instances of what I ...
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... Boccaccio ; but the Clerk of Oxen- forde , who tells it , professes to have learned it from Petrarch . This story has gone all over Europe , and has passed into a proverb . In spite of the barbarity of the circumstances , which are ...
... Boccaccio ; but the Clerk of Oxen- forde , who tells it , professes to have learned it from Petrarch . This story has gone all over Europe , and has passed into a proverb . In spite of the barbarity of the circumstances , which are ...
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