American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... Italians . We instruct them without any peculiar paramount view to Christian or American character and duty . The system is radicaly unfriendly to religion and patriotism , in any just and com- prehensiv view of both , and must be ...
... Italians . We instruct them without any peculiar paramount view to Christian or American character and duty . The system is radicaly unfriendly to religion and patriotism , in any just and com- prehensiv view of both , and must be ...
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... Italian poet would have immortalized , has fewer English readers than Mil- ton . He would actually have come nearer the heart , even of our own time , had he adopted the Grecian mythology , than he has with his cumbrous allegorical ...
... Italian poet would have immortalized , has fewer English readers than Mil- ton . He would actually have come nearer the heart , even of our own time , had he adopted the Grecian mythology , than he has with his cumbrous allegorical ...
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... Italian poets early saw that here was the germ of the modern epic , and exquisitely did they turn their sagacity to account . But the fairy - faith had vanished from the Italian republics , if indeed it had ever obtained there , with ...
... Italian poets early saw that here was the germ of the modern epic , and exquisitely did they turn their sagacity to account . But the fairy - faith had vanished from the Italian republics , if indeed it had ever obtained there , with ...
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... Italy ! thy hills of beauty weep , Where the world's histories , writ in ruins , sleep ! Where empire , passing on from clime to clime , Hath left engraved so deep his steps sublime ! Where glory , emblemed once in thy fair name , Hides ...
... Italy ! thy hills of beauty weep , Where the world's histories , writ in ruins , sleep ! Where empire , passing on from clime to clime , Hath left engraved so deep his steps sublime ! Where glory , emblemed once in thy fair name , Hides ...
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... Italian ode . There is a strong resemblance in the character of sentiment and even the language of many stanzas , between the latter production and that of La- martine ; in the two following verses we perceive an affinity , thought not ...
... Italian ode . There is a strong resemblance in the character of sentiment and even the language of many stanzas , between the latter production and that of La- martine ; in the two following verses we perceive an affinity , thought not ...
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