Hidden fields
Books Books
" ... minds alone Petrarch will be ever dear. Such, while they regret his failings, and consider them as warnings to themselves, will love his virtues ; and, touched by the glowing piety, and heartfelt contrition, which often impressed his soul, will ardently... "
The Life of Petrarch: Collected from Memoires Pour la Vie de Petrarch - Page viii
by Jacques-François-Paul-Aldonce de Sade - 1809
Full view - About this book

Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged, Volume 53

1776 - 632 pages
...produced in grateful and affeflionate hearts, on reviewing their own lives and contemplating the workt of God. ' It is too worthy of our notice here to be omitted, that a man who was the full genius, of the age in which he lived, and wbofe fociety was fought and delighted in by ¡x ; ions...
Full view - About this book

The Life of Petrarch: Collected from Memoires Pour la Vie de Petrarch, Volume 1

Jacques-François-Paul-Aldonce de Sade, Mrs. Dobson (Susannah) - Poets, Italian - 1807 - 326 pages
...contrition, which often impressed his soul, will ardently desire to partake with him in those pathetic and sublime reflections, which are produced in grateful...persons of the highest rank and learning, thought it no derogation to his talents or politeness, to introduce sacred and moral observations both in his...
Full view - About this book

Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 16

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...contrition which often impressed his soul, will ardently desire to partake with him in those pathetic and sublime reflections which are produced in grateful...their own lives, and contemplating the works of God. " Petrarch had received from nature a very dangerous present. His figure was so distinguished as to...
Full view - About this book

The Monthly Review

Books - 1835 - 618 pages
...heartfelt contrition which often impressed his soul, and desire to partake with him in those tender and sublime reflections which are produced in grateful...their own lives, and contemplating the works of God. Those readers who are interested in the fortunes of Petrarch will pity his fate, admire his sublime...
Full view - About this book

The Dawning of Genius: Exemplified and Exhibited in the Early Lives of ...

Theodore Alois Buckley - Biography - 1853 - 446 pages
...contrition which often impressed his soul, will ardently desire to partake with him in those pathetic and sublime reflections which are produced in grateful...their own lives and contemplating the works of God." These remarks of a biographer of Petrarch's* are briefly characteristic of his life. Incongruous, and...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF