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... performance that at best can please only a few . Complaints of our degeneracy in literature as well as in morals , I own , have been frequently exhibited of late ; but seem to be enforced more with the ardour of devious declamation than ...
... performance that at best can please only a few . Complaints of our degeneracy in literature as well as in morals , I own , have been frequently exhibited of late ; but seem to be enforced more with the ardour of devious declamation than ...
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... performance . After the age of Clement VII . the Italians seemed to think that there was more merit in praising or censuring well than in writing well ; almost every subse- quent performance being designed rather to show the excellence ...
... performance . After the age of Clement VII . the Italians seemed to think that there was more merit in praising or censuring well than in writing well ; almost every subse- quent performance being designed rather to show the excellence ...
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... performance . The stage also is more magnificent with us than any other in Europe , and the people in general fonder of theatrical en- tertainment . Yet still as our pleasures , as well as more important concerns , are generally man ...
... performance . The stage also is more magnificent with us than any other in Europe , and the people in general fonder of theatrical en- tertainment . Yet still as our pleasures , as well as more important concerns , are generally man ...
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CHAPTER | 3 |
III | 21 |
Of the present state of polite learning in Italy | 27 |
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