| Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi - 1823 - 512 páginas
...them, may be ranked with the most celebrated historical descriptions which have descended to us. The perfect truth of colouring; the exquisite choice of...in Thucydides, animates the relation of the plague in Athens. Boccaccio had, doubtless, this model before his eyes ; but the events, to which he was a... | |
| 1825 - 604 páginas
...them, may be ranked with the most celebrated historical descriptions which have descended to us. The perfect truth of colouring; the exquisite choice of...in Thucydides, animates the relation of the plague in Athens. Boccaccio had, doubtless, this model before his eyes ; but the events, to which he was a... | |
| 1825 - 624 páginas
...them, may be ranked with the most celebrated historical descriptions which have descended to us. The perfect truth of colouring; the exquisite choice of...in Thucydides, animates the relation of the plague in Athens. Boccaccio had, doubtless, this model before his eyes ; but the events, to which he was a... | |
| Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi, Thomas Roscoe - 1846 - 604 páginas
...descended to us. The perfect truth of colouring ; the exquisite choice of circumstances, caleulated to produce the deepest impression, and which place...in Thucydides, animates the relation of the plague in Athens. Boccaccio had, doubtless, this model before his eyes; but the events, to which he was a... | |
| Samuel Maunder - 1880 - 904 páginas
...historical descriptions which have descended to us. The perfect truth of colouring ; the exqulsite choice of circumstances, calculated to produce the...exciting disgust; and the emotion of the writer, which fn•enelbly pervades every part, give to this Sict ure that true eloquence of history.wbich i Thucydldes... | |
| Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 718 páginas
...them, may be ranked with the most celebrated historical descriptions which have descended to us. The perfect truth of colouring ; the exquisite choice...in Thucydides, animates the relation of the plague in Athens. Boccaccio had, doubtless, this model before his eyes ; but the events, to which he was a... | |
| Henry Smith Williams - 1907 - 724 páginas
...them, may be ranked with the most celebrated historical descriptions which have descended to us. The perfect truth of colouring ; the exquisite choice...in Thucydides, animates the relation of the plague in Athens. Boccaccio had, doubtless, this model before his eyes ; but the events, to which he was a... | |
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