| Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 540 páginas
...says Paul Cortesius, "he labours with thought, and struggles to give it utterance: but his sentiments find no adequate vehicle, and the lustre of his native...talents is obscured by the depraved taste of the times." In his youth, he was flattered as having obtained the second place in poetry, his admiration for Dante... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - 540 páginas
...says Paul Cortesius, "he labours with thought, and struggles to give it utterance: but his sentiments find no adequate vehicle, and the lustre of his native...talents is obscured by the depraved taste of the times." In his youth, he was flattered as having obtained the second place in poetry, his admiration for Dante... | |
| William Roscoe - 1825 - 536 páginas
...crude, and uninformed. He labours with thought, and struggles to give it utterance; but his sentiments find no adequate vehicle, and the lustre of his native...individual, the poems of Dante and of Petrarca were read in public assemblies of the inhabitants of Florence, and their beauties pointed out, or their obscurities... | |
| 1837 - 654 páginas
...crude, and unformed. He labours with thought, and struggles to give it utterance ; but his sentiments find no adequate vehicle, and the lustre of his native...talents is obscured by the depraved taste of the times.' Yet his own mother tongue owes its earliest model of grace and refinement to his pen. " Petrarch was... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1837 - 714 páginas
...crude, and unformed. He labours with thought, and struggles to give it utterance ; but his sentiments find no adequate vehicle, and the lustre of his native...talents is obscured by the depraved taste of the times." Yet his own mother tongue owes its earliest model of grace and refinement to his pen. 93. Petrarch... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1839 - 416 páginas
...crude, and unformed. He labours with thought, and struggles to give it utterance; but his sentiments find no adequate vehicle, and the lustre of his native talents is obscured by.the depraved taste of the times." Yet his own mother tongue owes its earliest model of grace and... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1854 - 630 páginas
...crude, and unformed. He labours with thought, and struggles to give it utterance ; but his sentiments find no adequate vehicle, and the lustre of his native...talents is obscured by the depraved taste of the times." Yet his own mother-tongue owes its earliest model of grace and refinement to his pen. 93. Petrarch... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1856 - 422 páginas
...though less diffuse, is not less panegyrical. 3e Sade's three quartos are certainly a little tedious. nu adequate vehicle, and the lustre of his native talents is obscured by the depraved taste of the times." Yet his own mother tongue owes its earliest model of grace and refinement to his pen. 93. Petrarch... | |
| William Roscoe - 1883 - 638 páginas
...crude, and uninformed. He labours with thought, and Struggles to give it utterance ; but his sentiments find no adequate vehicle, and the lustre of his native...individual, the poems of Dante and of Petrarca were read in public assemblies of the inhabitants of Florence, and their beauties pointed out, or their obscurities... | |
| Paget Jackson Toynbee - 1909 - 784 páginas
...enabled to convey his sentiments in Latin as advantageously as he has done in his native tongue. . . .' Whilst such was the fate of the Latin productions...individual, the poems of Dante and of Petrarca were read in public assemblies of the inhabitants of Florence, and their beauties pointed out, or their obscurities... | |
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