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Page 236
... sense are there in their thousand folio or quarto volumes ? What would the world lose if they were committed to the flames to - morrow ? Or are they not already ' gone to the vault of all the Capulets ' ? Yet all these were oracles in ...
... sense are there in their thousand folio or quarto volumes ? What would the world lose if they were committed to the flames to - morrow ? Or are they not already ' gone to the vault of all the Capulets ' ? Yet all these were oracles in ...
Page 244
... sense of beauty , of pleasure , and of power in the human breast , and are explained by that finer sense , and revealed in their inner structure to the eye in return . Nature is also a language . Objects , like words , have a meaning ...
... sense of beauty , of pleasure , and of power in the human breast , and are explained by that finer sense , and revealed in their inner structure to the eye in return . Nature is also a language . Objects , like words , have a meaning ...
Page 528
... sense and feeling of its presence . Before that mere sense of its presence the weak and feeble pages , the small fires of human knowledge , dwindled and lost meaning . There was something here that was not in the books . In all the ...
... sense and feeling of its presence . Before that mere sense of its presence the weak and feeble pages , the small fires of human knowledge , dwindled and lost meaning . There was something here that was not in the books . In all the ...
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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 Irenĉus 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 |