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... Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry ... Italy , of which he had with particular diligence studied the language and literature : and , though he seems to ...
... Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry ... Italy , of which he had with particular diligence studied the language and literature : and , though he seems to ...
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... Italian pronunciation , which , he said , was necessary , if he would talk with foreigners . This seems to have been a task ... Italy , which opened thus : Let * curious ear , attentive and critical . † open the most difficult passages ...
... Italian pronunciation , which , he said , was necessary , if he would talk with foreigners . This seems to have been a task ... Italy , which opened thus : Let * curious ear , attentive and critical . † open the most difficult passages ...
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... Italy was overrun by tyrant power and coward vice ; nor was our state much better when we first borrowed the Italian arts . Of the third ternary , the first gives a mythological birth of Shakespeare . What is said of that mighty genius ...
... Italy was overrun by tyrant power and coward vice ; nor was our state much better when we first borrowed the Italian arts . Of the third ternary , the first gives a mythological birth of Shakespeare . What is said of that mighty genius ...
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Milton | 15 |
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