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Milton's acquaintance with the Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses ... From Paris he hasted into Italy , of which he had with particular diligence studied the language and literature : and ...
Milton's acquaintance with the Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses ... From Paris he hasted into Italy , of which he had with particular diligence studied the language and literature : and ...
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There is little reason for preferring the Italian pronunciation to our own , except that it is more general ; and to teach ... Voltaire tells a wild and unauthorized story of a farce seen by Milton in Italy , which opened thus : Let the ...
There is little reason for preferring the Italian pronunciation to our own , except that it is more general ; and to teach ... Voltaire tells a wild and unauthorized story of a farce seen by Milton in Italy , which opened thus : Let the ...
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His position is at last false : in the time of Dante and Petrarch , from whom he derives our first school of Poetry , Italy was overrun by tyrant power and coward vice ; nor was our state much better when we first borrowed the Italian ...
His position is at last false : in the time of Dante and Petrarch , from whom he derives our first school of Poetry , Italy was overrun by tyrant power and coward vice ; nor was our state much better when we first borrowed the Italian ...
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Milton | 15 |
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