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Page 96
... Italian tragedy . Voltaire tells a wild and unauthorized story of a farce seen by Milton in Italy , which opened thus : Let the Rainbow be the Fiddlestick of the Fiddle of Heaven . It has been already shewn , that the first conception ...
... Italian tragedy . Voltaire tells a wild and unauthorized story of a farce seen by Milton in Italy , which opened thus : Let the Rainbow be the Fiddlestick of the Fiddle of Heaven . It has been already shewn , that the first conception ...
Page 110
... Italian , French , and Spanish . In Latin his skill was such as places him in the first rank of writers and criticks ; and he appears to have cultivated Italian with uncommon diligence . The books in which his daughter , who used to ...
... Italian , French , and Spanish . In Latin his skill was such as places him in the first rank of writers and criticks ; and he appears to have cultivated Italian with uncommon diligence . The books in which his daughter , who used to ...
Page 418
... Italy , which he surveyed with the eyes of a poet . While he was travelling at leisure , he was far from being idle ; for he not only collected his observations on the country , but found time to write his Dialogues on Medals , and four ...
... Italy , which he surveyed with the eyes of a poet . While he was travelling at leisure , he was far from being idle ; for he not only collected his observations on the country , but found time to write his Dialogues on Medals , and four ...
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