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WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, PRINCE'S STREET: AND
BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY, PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON,
1818.
LOAN STACK
v. 2
Italian Literature-Allegorizing spirit of the middle
age-Relation of Christianity to poetry-Dante,
Petrarch, and Boccaccio-Character of the Ita-
lian art of poetry in general-Modern Latin
poets, and the evil consequences of their writ-
ings-Machiavelli-Great inventions and disco-
veries of the fifteenth century....
LECTURE X.
A few words upon the Literature of the North and
East of Europe-Upon the scholastic learning
and German mystics of the middle age... age..........
LECTURE XI.
General remarks on the philosophy of the times im-
mediately preceding and following the reforma-
tion-Poetry of the Catholic nations, the Spa-
niards, the Portuguese, and the Italians-Gar-
cilaso, Ercilla, Camoens, Tasso, Guarini, Marino,
and Cervantes...
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LECTURE XII,
Of romance-Dramatic poetry of the Spaniards-
Spencer, Shakespeare, and Milton-Age of Lewis
XIV.-The French theatre......
LECTURE XIII.
Philosophy of the seventeenth century-Bacon,
Hugo Grotius, Descartes, Bossuet, Pascal-
Change in the mode of thinking-Spirit of the
eighteenth century-Picture of the atheism and
revolutionary spirit of the French.................
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