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... and the enthusiasm of a crusader; and combines in his romances, with the
tender feelings of chivalrous love, the heroism of Roman virtue and the sublimity
of Christian martyrdom. His writings are less a faithful portrait of any particular
age or ...
... and the enthusiasm of a crusader; and combines in his romances, with the
tender feelings of chivalrous love, the heroism of Roman virtue and the sublimity
of Christian martyrdom. His writings are less a faithful portrait of any particular
age or ...
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around them ; yet even Eustace tells us, that a few detached lines is all that is left
in regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, “The palaces of
nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And
throned ...
around them ; yet even Eustace tells us, that a few detached lines is all that is left
in regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, “The palaces of
nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And
throned ...
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Had the barbarians been acquainted with the use of gunpowder, not a Greek or
Roman edifice would have survived their invasion; they would have blown up
even the Pyramids in the search for hidden treasures. One year of war in Our
times ...
Had the barbarians been acquainted with the use of gunpowder, not a Greek or
Roman edifice would have survived their invasion; they would have blown up
even the Pyramids in the search for hidden treasures. One year of war in Our
times ...
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Its object is to trace the influence of Christianity from its first spread in the Roman
empire to the rise of civilisation in the Western world; a field in which he goes
over the ground trod by Gibbon, and demonstrates the unbounded benefits
derived ...
Its object is to trace the influence of Christianity from its first spread in the Roman
empire to the rise of civilisation in the Western world; a field in which he goes
over the ground trod by Gibbon, and demonstrates the unbounded benefits
derived ...
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... domestic tenderness, the oblivion of self in Hector, in the Iliad, and it will at
once appear how far deeper the insight into the human heart was in the Grecian
than the Roman poet. One striking instance will at once illustrate this. When
Hector ...
... domestic tenderness, the oblivion of self in Hector, in the Iliad, and it will at
once appear how far deeper the insight into the human heart was in the Grecian
than the Roman poet. One striking instance will at once illustrate this. When
Hector ...
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| Otsikko | Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3 Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Archibald Alison |
| Kirjoittaja | Archibald Alison |
| Kustantaja | W. Blackwood, 1850 |
| Alkuperäisteoksen sijainti | Kalifornian yliopisto |
| Digitoitu | 18. lokakuu 2007 |
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