The Encyclopædia Britannica: The New Volumes, Constituting, in Combination with the Twenty-nine Volumes of the Eleventh Edition, the Twelfth Edition of that Work, and Also Supplying a New, Distinctive, and Independent Library of Reference Dealing with Events and Developments of the Period 1910 to 1921 Inclusive, Հատոր 11Encyclopædia Britannica Company, Limited, 1910 |
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... style of Portuguese prose literature , but his endeavour to effect a reformation in the national poetry by a translation of Horace's Ars poëtica was less successful . The work in which he set forth his opinions regarding the vicious ...
... style of Portuguese prose literature , but his endeavour to effect a reformation in the national poetry by a translation of Horace's Ars poëtica was less successful . The work in which he set forth his opinions regarding the vicious ...
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... style and subject . But for a time they reigned supreme , and no better instance of their popularity can be given than the fact that manuscripts of them exist , not merely in every French dialect , but in many cases in a strange ...
... style and subject . But for a time they reigned supreme , and no better instance of their popularity can be given than the fact that manuscripts of them exist , not merely in every French dialect , but in many cases in a strange ...
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... style of oratory , recoil- ing before no aid of what we should nowadays style buffoonery , and manifesting a creditable indifference to the indignation of principalities and powers . Louis XI . is said to have threatened to throw ...
... style of oratory , recoil- ing before no aid of what we should nowadays style buffoonery , and manifesting a creditable indifference to the indignation of principalities and powers . Louis XI . is said to have threatened to throw ...
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... style able to give expression to these good gifts . The foregoing account of the medieval literature of France will have shown sufficiently that it is not lawful to despise the literary capacities and achievements of the older French ...
... style able to give expression to these good gifts . The foregoing account of the medieval literature of France will have shown sufficiently that it is not lawful to despise the literary capacities and achievements of the older French ...
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... style and of the time . Jean Doublet ( c . 1528 - c.1580 ) , Amadis Jamyn ( c . 1530-1585 ) , and Jean de la Taille ( 1540-1608 ) deserve mention at least as poets , but two other writers require a longer allusion . Guillaume de ...
... style and of the time . Jean Doublet ( c . 1528 - c.1580 ) , Amadis Jamyn ( c . 1530-1585 ) , and Jean de la Taille ( 1540-1608 ) deserve mention at least as poets , but two other writers require a longer allusion . Guillaume de ...
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