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... Shakespeare and Dante , after thousands of years , what our modern Europe was , in Faith and Practice , will still be legible . Dante has given us the Faith or soul ; Shakespeare , in a not less noble way , has given us the Practice or ...
... Shakespeare and Dante , after thousands of years , what our modern Europe was , in Faith and Practice , will still be legible . Dante has given us the Faith or soul ; Shakespeare , in a not less noble way , has given us the Practice or ...
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... Shakespeare of ours , perhaps the opinion one sometimes hears a little idolatrously expressed is , in fact , the right one ; I think the best judgment not of this country only , but of Europe at large , is slowly pointing to the ...
... Shakespeare of ours , perhaps the opinion one sometimes hears a little idolatrously expressed is , in fact , the right one ; I think the best judgment not of this country only , but of Europe at large , is slowly pointing to the ...
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... Shakespeare , you English ; never have had any Indian Empire , or never have had any Shakespeare ? Really it were a grave question . Official persons would answer doubtless in official language ; but we , for our part too , should not ...
... Shakespeare , you English ; never have had any Indian Empire , or never have had any Shakespeare ? Really it were a grave question . Official persons would answer doubtless in official language ; but we , for our part too , should not ...
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Abraham Newland admirable beautiful better called character Chioggia church colour Dante delight dinner drama Elena Elizabethan Era English face fancy feel fellow French Gaiety Theatre genius gentlemen Gerado give Goldsmith gondola grace Grand Canal hand head hear heart Hernani honour humour imagination Irenæus kind lady laugh learned live look Malamocco Malebranche matter Messer mind Molière morning murder nature never Nicolas Poussin night observed Oliver Goldsmith once painted passed passion perhaps person picture play pleasure poem poet poetry poor round Sarah Bernhardt seems sense Shakespeare Sicarii Sir Roger sleep sort soul speak spirit style sweet talk taste tell theatre things thought Tintoretto tion Toad-in-the-hole told town true truth turn Venice verse Victor Hugo walk whist whole wonder words write young
References to this book
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener No preview available - 1989 |
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener Limited preview - 1989 |