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Page 76
... Corsican macchia or a tea - party at Mrs. Thrale's . But under this quiet exterior there lurked a singularly vivid imagination , a restless contriv- ing mind , and a youthfulness of feeling which survived equally the disenchantment of ...
... Corsican macchia or a tea - party at Mrs. Thrale's . But under this quiet exterior there lurked a singularly vivid imagination , a restless contriv- ing mind , and a youthfulness of feeling which survived equally the disenchantment of ...
Page 77
... Corsican feuds and intrigues to be attrac- tive to the general reader . Much better also than Klose's memoir are the incidental notices of Paoli in Gregorovius's entertaining volumes of personal travels in Corsica - the best hand - book ...
... Corsican feuds and intrigues to be attrac- tive to the general reader . Much better also than Klose's memoir are the incidental notices of Paoli in Gregorovius's entertaining volumes of personal travels in Corsica - the best hand - book ...
Page 79
... Corsica as a point d'appui for his Mediter- ranean expeditions . The Marshal de Thermes was dispatched there at the head of an invading squadron and army , but the soul of the enterprise was Sampiero , a Corsican , of a peasant family ...
... Corsica as a point d'appui for his Mediter- ranean expeditions . The Marshal de Thermes was dispatched there at the head of an invading squadron and army , but the soul of the enterprise was Sampiero , a Corsican , of a peasant family ...
Page 80
... Corsicans preserves with the greatest fondness . The wars of the last half of the sixteenth century exhausted the island : the chronicler Filippini gives a dreary list of places which had become uninhabited in his time ; and the ...
... Corsicans preserves with the greatest fondness . The wars of the last half of the sixteenth century exhausted the island : the chronicler Filippini gives a dreary list of places which had become uninhabited in his time ; and the ...
Page 81
... Corsica the traveller can still trace the results of that long - continued plague . Population has been driven even ... Corsican independence by the latter power . It was a struggle carried on by the Genoese with a dis- regard of all ...
... Corsica the traveller can still trace the results of that long - continued plague . Population has been driven even ... Corsican independence by the latter power . It was a struggle carried on by the Genoese with a dis- regard of all ...
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