 This will be a consolation to some of us to whom the mirror exists as a perpetual reproach. Had we lived in heroic times, the world which knows nothing of us but our outside, would have been enabled from that to detect those esoteric excelences with which,...  Corinna, Or, Italy - Page 42by Anne Louise Germaine Staël-Holstein (baronne de.) - 1807Full view - About this book
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...nature which is principally to be remarked in chefs-d'oeuvre. It appears that, among the antients, who lived almost incessantly in the midst of war,...the dignity of features and the pride of character, height of stature and commanding authority, were inseparable ideas before a religion entirely intellectual... | |
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