Historical StudiesLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865 - 472 páginas |
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... Corsican macchia or a tea - party at Mrs. Thrale's . But under this quiet exterior there lurked a singularly vivid imagination , a restless contriv- ing mind , and a youthfulness of feeling which survived equally the disenchantment of ...
... Corsican macchia or a tea - party at Mrs. Thrale's . But under this quiet exterior there lurked a singularly vivid imagination , a restless contriv- ing mind , and a youthfulness of feeling which survived equally the disenchantment of ...
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... Corsican feuds and intrigues to be attrac- tive to the general reader . Much better also than Klose's memoir are the incidental notices of Paoli in Gregorovius's entertaining volumes of personal travels in Corsica - the best hand - book ...
... Corsican feuds and intrigues to be attrac- tive to the general reader . Much better also than Klose's memoir are the incidental notices of Paoli in Gregorovius's entertaining volumes of personal travels in Corsica - the best hand - book ...
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... Corsica as a point d'appui for his Mediter- ranean expeditions . The Marshal de Thermes was dispatched there at the head of an invading squadron and army , but the soul of the enterprise was Sampiero , a Corsican , of a peasant family ...
... Corsica as a point d'appui for his Mediter- ranean expeditions . The Marshal de Thermes was dispatched there at the head of an invading squadron and army , but the soul of the enterprise was Sampiero , a Corsican , of a peasant family ...
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... Corsicans preserves with the greatest fondness . The wars of the last half of the sixteenth century exhausted the island : the chronicler Filippini gives a dreary list of places which had become uninhabited in his time ; and the ...
... Corsicans preserves with the greatest fondness . The wars of the last half of the sixteenth century exhausted the island : the chronicler Filippini gives a dreary list of places which had become uninhabited in his time ; and the ...
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... Corsica the traveller can still trace the results of that long - continued plague . Population has been driven even ... Corsican independence by the latter power . It was a struggle carried on by the Genoese with a dis- regard of all ...
... Corsica the traveller can still trace the results of that long - continued plague . Population has been driven even ... Corsican independence by the latter power . It was a struggle carried on by the Genoese with a dis- regard of all ...
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Página 100 - The pamphlet proves what I have always maintained, that any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
Página 188 - And you, my midnight darlings, my Folios ! must I part with the intense delight of having you (huge armfuls) in my embraces ? Must knowledge come to me, if it come at all, by some awkward experiment of intuition, and no longer by this familiar process of reading ? Shall I enjoy friendships there wanting the smiling indications which point me to them here, — the recognisable face the "sweet assurance of a look?