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... Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Ætna simul ; restringite flammam O lacrimæ , aut lacrimas ebibe flamma meas . One of the severe ...
... Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Ætna simul ; restringite flammam O lacrimæ , aut lacrimas ebibe flamma meas . One of the severe ...
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... Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry , and his malignity to the church , by some lines which are interpreted as threatening its extermination . He is ...
... Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry , and his malignity to the church , by some lines which are interpreted as threatening its extermination . He is ...
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... Italy , of which he had with particular diligence studied the language and literature ; and though he seems to have ... Italians were gainers by this literary commerce ; for the en- comiums with which Milton repaid Salsilli , though not ...
... Italy , of which he had with particular diligence studied the language and literature ; and though he seems to have ... Italians were gainers by this literary commerce ; for the en- comiums with which Milton repaid Salsilli , though not ...
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Samuel Johnson. Of these Italian testimonies , poor as they are , he was proud enough to publish them before his poems ; though he says , he cannot be suspected but to have known that they were said non tam de se , quam supra se . At ...
Samuel Johnson. Of these Italian testimonies , poor as they are , he was proud enough to publish them before his poems ; though he says , he cannot be suspected but to have known that they were said non tam de se , quam supra se . At ...
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... Italian pronunciation , which , he said , was ne- cessary , if he would talk with foreigners . This seems to have been a task troublesome without use . There is little reason for preferring the Italian pronunciation to our own , except ...
... Italian pronunciation , which , he said , was ne- cessary , if he would talk with foreigners . This seems to have been a task troublesome without use . There is little reason for preferring the Italian pronunciation to our own , except ...
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