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Page 60
... 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 69
... Italy . I went primed with much reading of Walter Pater , Ruskin and John Addington Symonds . I had the six weeks of the Easter vacation at my disposal and twenty pounds in my pocket . After going to Genoa and Pisa , where I trudged the ...
... Italy . I went primed with much reading of Walter Pater , Ruskin and John Addington Symonds . I had the six weeks of the Easter vacation at my disposal and twenty pounds in my pocket . After going to Genoa and Pisa , where I trudged the ...
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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 creative 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 creative value so that you are left only ...
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