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Adelchi Alfieri ancient Austrian beauty Bernabò Visconti blood breath Carbonari Carmagnola Catholic century Cesare Cantù character Christian civilised countrymen D'Azeglio despotism drama England English Englishman episodes equally evil exile fate favour feelings Florence foreign Foscolo France French genius Gioberti Giovanni God's Grossi Guerrazzi hand heart Heaven heroes historical novels human interest Italian Jesuits King land less literature Lombard Lombard league look Manzoni Marco Visconti Mazzini ment Milan Milanese mind modern Monza moral Naples Napoleon native nature never novelist object patriots Pellico perhaps poet poetry political pope popular princes Racconto race readers religious revolution romance Romanticism Rome Rondinella Rosini Scott Secolo seemed soul spirit Storia style tender thee thou thought tion tragedy true Turin Tuscany Ugo Foscolo unity utter utterly Venetian Venice views Visconti vols WALTER DE CLIFFORD whilst word write Young Italy
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Page 6 - The Roman Church and Modern Society. By E. QUINET, of the College of France. Translated from the French Third Edition (with the Author's approbation), by C. COCKS, BL 8vo.
Page 441 - Professor Norton has devoted a whole volume full of ingenious reasoning and solid learning, to show that the Gnostic sects of the second century admitted in general the same sacred books with the orthodox Christians. However doubtful may be his complete success, he has made out a strong case, which, as far as it goes, is one of the most valuable confutations of the extreme German ^wfi^ovTir, an excellent subsidiary contribution to the proof of the ' genuineness of the Scriptures.
Page 5 - ... solemnity, or terror: a fancy of exuberance literally unexampled; for it pours its treasures with a lavishness which knows no limit, hanging, like the sun, a jewel on every grass-blade, and sowing the earth at large with orient pearl.
Page 434 - It is not often our good fortune to meet with a book so well conceived, so well written, and so instructive as this. The various phases of the national mind, described with the clearness and force of Mr.
Page 433 - ... thought, and sentence for sentence. In preparing so beautiful a rendering as the present, the difficulties can have been neither few nor small in the way of preserving, in various parts of the work, the exactness of the translation, combined with that uniform harmony and clearness of style, which impart to the volumes before us the air and spirit of an original.
Page 124 - Dove l' aria ancor m' è tolta , Donde a te la mia favella Giunge appena , o rondinella. Il settembre innanzi viene E a lasciarmi ti prepari : Tu vedrai lontane arene ; Nuovi monti, nuovi mari Salutando in tua favella , Pellegrina rondinella. Ed io tutte le mattine Riaprendo gli occhi al pianto, Fra le nevi e fra le brine Crederò d' udir quel canto, Onde par che in tua favella Mi compianga, o rondinella.
Page 433 - There is a mastery shown over every element of the Great Subject, and the slight treatment of it in parts no reader can help attributing to the [ plan of the work, rather than to the incapacity of the author. From the resources of a mind singularly exuberant by nature and laboriously enriched by culture, a system of results is here thrown up, and spread out in luminous exposition.
Page 442 - Catholic to its primitive significance, in its application to this Series, and to realize the idea of Catholicism in SPIRIT. It cannot be hoped that each volume of the Series will be essentially Catholic, and not partial, in its nature, for nearly all men are partial; — the many-sided and impartial, or truly Catholic man, has ever been the rare exception to his race. Catholicity may be expected in the Series, not in every volume composing it. An endeavour will be made to present to the Public a...
Page 434 - It is refreshing to light upon a book which has so much originality of conception as this, and in which the writer is bold enough to have an opinion of his own." — Critic, " The Introduction is especially remarkable for its power — not only power of words, but of ideas.
Page 444 - THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PRESENT AGE. By Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Translated from the German by William Smith. Post 8vo, pp. xi. and 271, cloth. 1847. 6s. FICHTE.— MEMOIR OF JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE. By William Smith. Second Edition. Post 8vo, pp. 168, cloth. 1848. 4s. FICHTE.— ON THE NATURE OF THE SCHOLAR, AND ITS MANIFESTATIONS.