 E il viso di pietosi color farsi, Non so se vero o falso, mi parea. '' Petrarch's person, if we trust to his biographers, " was so striking with beauties, as to attract universal admiration ". They represent him " with large and manly features, eyes full...  The Life of Petrarch - Page 24by Jacques-François-Paul-Aldonce de Sade, Mrs. Dobson (Susannah) - 1797 - 8 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jacques-François-Paul-Aldonce de Sade, Mrs. Dobson (Susannah) - Poets, Italian - 1807 - 326 pages
...received from nature a very dangerous present ; his figure was so distinguished as to attract universal admiration. He appears in his portraits with large...fire, a blooming complexion, and a countenance that bespoke all the genius and fancy which shone forth in his works. In the flower of his youth, the beauties... | |
 | Charles James - 1817 - 294 pages
...figure, as to attract ' universal admiration. He appears in his portraits,' continues the same author, ' with large and manly features, ' eyes full of fire, a blooming complexion, and a countenance ' that bespoke all the genius and fancy which shone forth in ' his works. He possessed an understanding active... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 602 pages
...figure was so distinguished, as to attract universal admiration. He appears in his portrait with large manly features, eyes full of fire, a blooming complexion, and a countenance that bespoke all the genius and fancy that shone forth in his works. In the flower of his youth, the beauties... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 602 pages
...figure was so distinguished, as to attract universal admiration. He appears in his portrait with large manly features, eyes full of fire, a blooming complexion, and a countenance that bespoke all the genius and fancy that shone forth in his works. In the flower of his youth, the beauties... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...received from nature a very dangerous present. His figure was so distinguished as to attract universal admiration. He appears, in his portraits, with large...fire, a blooming complexion, and a countenance that bespoke all the genius and fancy which shone forth in his works. In the flower of his youth, the beauty... | |
 | Ugo Foscolo - Platonic love - 1823 - 352 pages
...biographers, " was so striking with beauties, as to attract universal admiration." They represent him " with large and manly features, eyes full of fire, a blooming complexion, and a countenance that bespoke all the genius and fancy that shone forth in his works*." Possibly Petrarch was not over vain... | |
 | Niccolò Machiavelli - English literature - 1907 - 440 pages
...biographers, "was so striking with beauties as to attract universal admiration." They represent him "with large and manly features, eyes full of fire, a blooming complexion, and a countenance that bespoke all the genius and fancy that shone forth in his works." Possibly Petrarch was not over-vain... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 596 pages
...figure was so distinguished, as to attract universal admiration. He appears in his portrait with large manly features, eyes full of fire, a blooming complexion, and a countenance that bespoke all the genius and fancy that shone forth in his works. In the flower of his youth, the beauties... | |
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