| John Lothrop Motley - 1861 - 562 páginas
...epoch. There is hardly a character in history upon which the imagination 1 Declaration, uii sup. can dwell with more unalloyed delight. Not in romantic...English contemporary is potent enough to conjure it hack again, so long as humanity is alive to the nobler impulses. " I cannot pass him over in silence,"... | |
| John Tillotson - 1865 - 508 páginas
...a character in history upon which the imagination can dwell with more unalloyed delight. Not, even in romantic fiction was there ever created a more...martial valour, poetic genius, and purity of heart. "I cannot," says Camden, " pass him over in silence, that glorious star, that lively pattern of virtue,... | |
| John Nichol - 1882 - 492 páginas
...distant and disastrous epoch. There is hardly a character in history upon which the imagination can dwell with more unalloyed delight. Not in romantic...long as humanity is alive to the nobler impulses." Later, on Sidney's death after Zutphen, Mr. Motley writes : — " Sidney was first to recognise the... | |
| John Nichol - 1882 - 496 páginas
...distant and disastrous epoch. There is hardly a character in history upon which the imagination can dwell with more unalloyed delight. Not in romantic...long as humanity is alive to the nobler impulses." Later, on Sidney's death after Zutphen, Mr. Motley writes : — " Sidney was first to recognise the... | |
| John Nichol - 1882 - 528 páginas
...distant and disastrous epoch. There is hardly a character in history upon which the imagination can dwell with more unalloyed delight. Not in romantic...the mocking spirit of the soldier of Lepanto could ' amile chivalry away,' the name alone of his English contemporary is potent enough to conjure it back... | |
| John Lothrop Motley - 1900 - 500 páginas
...distant and disastrous epoch. There is hardly a character in history upon which the imagination can dwell with more unalloyed delight. Not in romantic...ever created a more attractive incarnation of martial valor, poetic genius, and purity of heart. If the mocking spirit of the soldier of Lepanto could "smile... | |
| John Lothrop Motley - 1900 - 488 páginas
...distant and disastrous epoch. There is hardly a character in history upon which the imagination can dwell with more unalloyed delight. Not in romantic...ever created a more attractive incarnation of martial valor, poetic genius, and purity of heart. If the mocking spirit of the soldier of Lepanto could "smile... | |
| Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 706 páginas
...distant and disastrous epoch. There is hardly a character in history upon which the imagination can dwell with more unalloyed delight. Not in romantic...martial valour, poetic genius, and purity of heart. At last the earl of Leicester came, embarking at Harwich, with a fleet of fifty ships, and attended... | |
| Henry Smith Williams - 1907 - 710 páginas
...distant and disastrous epoch. There is hardly a character in history upon which the imagination can dwell with more unalloyed delight. Not in romantic...martial valour, poetic genius, and purity of heart. At last the earl of Leicester came, embarking at Harwich, with a fleet of fifty ships, and attended... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 páginas
...1840, Sordello, bk. i, v. 68-71. There is hardly a character in history upon which the imagination can dwell with more unalloyed delight. Not in romantic...martial valour, poetic genius, and purity of heart. —MOTLEY, JOHN LOTHROP, 1860, History of the United Netherlands, vol. I, p. 357. In the world of letters,... | |
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