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Page 85
... Italy and Greece , neither of which in point of fact he knew , but he fired my young imagination and I began to learn Italian . I accepted everything he told me with the fervour of the proselyte . I should not blame him because he ...
... Italy and Greece , neither of which in point of fact he knew , but he fired my young imagination and I began to learn Italian . I accepted everything he told me with the fervour of the proselyte . I should not blame him because he ...
Page 196
... the beauty of the islands that took me , Herman Melville and Pierre Loti had prepared me for that , and though it is a different beauty it is not a greater beauty than that of Greece or Southern Italy ; nor [ 196 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... the beauty of the islands that took me , Herman Melville and Pierre Loti had prepared me for that , and though it is a different beauty it is not a greater beauty than that of Greece or Southern Italy ; nor [ 196 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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... Italian Renaissance is fascinating too , but the subject , comparatively , is small ; the ideas that informed it were few , and you get tired of its art which has been long since drained of its cre- ative value so that you are left only ...
... Italian Renaissance is fascinating too , but the subject , comparatively , is small ; the ideas that informed it were few , and you get tired of its art which has been long since drained of its cre- ative value so that you are left only ...
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