The Genius of Italy: Being Sketches of Italian Life, Literature, and ReligionG. P. Putnam, 1849 - 332 էջ |
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... seems to warble from the lips of children like the song of early birds . It is ever gliding into poetry and song . Hence the wonderful facility of the Italian Improvisatori . It is indeed capable of the utmost compression and force ...
... seems to warble from the lips of children like the song of early birds . It is ever gliding into poetry and song . Hence the wonderful facility of the Italian Improvisatori . It is indeed capable of the utmost compression and force ...
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... of the great masters of ancient and of modern Italy , and the very air seems redolent of beauty . It awes the spirit like a presence and a mystery . In those silent forms it lives forever , imbreathed , so to speak 24 GENIUS OF ITALY .
... of the great masters of ancient and of modern Italy , and the very air seems redolent of beauty . It awes the spirit like a presence and a mystery . In those silent forms it lives forever , imbreathed , so to speak 24 GENIUS OF ITALY .
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... seem , could be more repulsive than the head of Medusa , environed with snakes , and yet , in the hands of Leo- nardo da Vinci , it is made attractive , by means of a strange , and , if the term be allowed , a hideous beauty . Shelley ...
... seem , could be more repulsive than the head of Medusa , environed with snakes , and yet , in the hands of Leo- nardo da Vinci , it is made attractive , by means of a strange , and , if the term be allowed , a hideous beauty . Shelley ...
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... seem occasionally to be somewhat desultory , and even capricious , let it be forgiven , in the hope , that the whole , when completed , may contribute to a just and harmonious , even if limited conception of the Genius of Italy ...
... seem occasionally to be somewhat desultory , and even capricious , let it be forgiven , in the hope , that the whole , when completed , may contribute to a just and harmonious , even if limited conception of the Genius of Italy ...
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... seems less of earth than of heaven . The whole opens before us like a vast temple , illumined by a dome of light , in which our morning orisons might ascend to the great Source of life and joy . What a flood of thrilling associa- tions ...
... seems less of earth than of heaven . The whole opens before us like a vast temple , illumined by a dome of light , in which our morning orisons might ascend to the great Source of life and joy . What a flood of thrilling associa- tions ...
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The Genius of Italy: Being Sketches of Italian Life, Literature, and Religion Robert Turnbull Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1849 |
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The Genius of Italy: Or, Fact and Poetry from Italian Life, Literature, and ... Robert Turnbull Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1855 |
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