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| 1821 - 566 lehte
...certainly very strong ; but the construction of the passage, its chromatic progres* LOTTI flourished at the end of the seventeenth, and at the beginning of the last century. He was one of the most celebrated composers of the age, and it is said, that HASSE chose... | |
| 1861 - 522 lehte
...refiner of character, in a remark made by Medley, in Etherege's " Man of Mode." The ladies of fashion, at the end of the seventeenth and at the beginning of the eighteenth century, were not remarkable for great delicacy. We may remember how the old lady told Sir Walter S?ott that... | |
| 1873 - 800 lehte
...notorious, and that therefore his engravings are most valuable for the study of the dress of the period. At the end of the seventeenth, and at the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, coats seem very commonly to have been furnished with slits running from the edge of the... | |
| Luke Owen Pike - 1876 - 754 lehte
...colours. And if on land highway robbery was but a faint reflection of the brigandage of old, it was still, at the end of the seventeenth and at the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, a danger which every traveller had to consider, and against which he had to make careful... | |
| Hermann Ulrici - 1876 - 572 lehte
...so undramatic, prosaic, and tedious, that it passed without producing any effect. However, towards the end of the seventeenth and at the beginning of the eighteenth century translations from the French (of Corneille, Eacine, Deschamps, Moliere and others) continued on the... | |
| Joseph Sabin - 1878 - 582 lehte
...eminent men of three different countries, it forms a most admirable resume of the geographical science at the end of the seventeenth and at the beginning of the eighteenth century. See G. Asher's " Essay on Ncw-Netherland," pp. 27-28. LA CROIX. Nouvelle Methode de la Geographie Universelle,... | |
| Catherine Mary Phillimore - 1887 - 348 lehte
...mixture of dialects, and had no notion of pronouncing the pure Tuscan of " II bel paese lil dove il St suona." Nor could any grace or dignity of gesture...the end of the seventeenth and at the beginning of tho eighteenth century. The merit of having raised it from so tgnominious a position belongs chiefly... | |
| Catherine Mary Phillimore - 1891 - 344 lehte
...garbled mixture of dialects, and had no notion of pronouncing the pure Tuscan of " II bel paese la dove il Si suona." Nor could any grace or dignity...from so ignominious a position belongs chiefly to the " Aecademia degli Arcadi," founded at Eome by Vincenzo Leonio (1690), and one of the most famous of... | |
| Hermann Ulrici - 1895 - 578 lehte
...so undramatic, prosaic, and tedious, that it passed without producing any effect. However, towards the end of the seventeenth and at the beginning of the eighteenth century translations from the French (of Corneille, Racine, Deschamps, Moliere and others) continued on the... | |
| Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1899 - 424 lehte
...architectural evidence of having been built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and enlarged and altered at the end of the seventeenth and at the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. It was purchased in 189: by Mr. G. Lowsley Williams, by whose permission the... | |
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