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Page 65
... Italian , the Spanish , or even the French , as not having fo great a quantity of words derived from the Latin . But the Latin language itself , as well as all others , muft yield to the unparallelled sweetness and copiousness of the ...
... Italian , the Spanish , or even the French , as not having fo great a quantity of words derived from the Latin . But the Latin language itself , as well as all others , muft yield to the unparallelled sweetness and copiousness of the ...
Page 79
... Italian poets , for that won- derful original Dante is the first , is said to have recited poems and orations of his own writing , when he was feven . It is how- ever certain , which is more extraordinary , that he produced his Rinaldo ...
... Italian poets , for that won- derful original Dante is the first , is said to have recited poems and orations of his own writing , when he was feven . It is how- ever certain , which is more extraordinary , that he produced his Rinaldo ...
Page 197
... Italy , fince the revival of learn- ing : for it was finished , as is evident from a short advertisement prefixed to ... italian one at Vienna , 1570 . ↑ As did his contemporary , Alonfo de Fuentes , in Spain , who published at Seville ...
... Italy , fince the revival of learn- ing : for it was finished , as is evident from a short advertisement prefixed to ... italian one at Vienna , 1570 . ↑ As did his contemporary , Alonfo de Fuentes , in Spain , who published at Seville ...
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