 | University of Oxford - 1833 - 146 Seiten
...Scholarship, 1833.] X. Translate into Latin, in the style of Cicero. Nor was mere philology the sole, or the leading, pursuit to which so truly noble a...Italian sky appears the most congenial accompaniment. Never could the sympathies of the soul with outward nature be more finely touched : never could more... | |
 | 1837 - 612 Seiten
...brightest hues of poetry, without departing from the sober dignity of prose : — ' Lorenzo de' Medici sought in ancient learning something more elevated...Italian sky appears the most congenial accompaniment. ' Never could the sympathies of the soul with outward nature be more finely touched ; never could more... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - 606 Seiten
...steep slope of that lofty hill crowned by the mother city, the ancient Fiesole, in gardens which Tully Tully might have envied, with Ficino, Landino, and...Italian sky appears the most congenial accompaniment. ' Never could the sympathies of the soul with outward nature be more finely touched ; never could more... | |
 | 1838 - 772 Seiten
...the mother city the ancient Fiesole, in gardens which Tully might have envied, with Ficino, Landiuo and Politian at his side, he delighted his hours of...Italian sky appears the most congenial accompaniment. " Never could the sympathies of the soul with outward nature be more finely touched ; never could more... | |
 | 1838 - 760 Seiten
...which Tully might have envied, with Ficino, Landino and Folitian at his side, he delighted his houra of leisure with the beautiful visions of Platonic...Italian sky appears the most congenial accompaniment. philosopher ami the statesman. Florence lay beneath them ; not with all the magnificence that the later... | |
 | 1839 - 526 Seiten
...overhanging the towers of Florence, on the steep slope of that lofty hill crowned by the mother-city, the ancient Fiesole, in gardens which Tully might...Italian sky appears the most congenial accompaniment. "Never could the sympathies of the soul with outward nature be more finely touched; never could more... | |
 | 1840 - 1176 Seiten
...the mother city, the ancient Fiesole, in gardens which Tully might have envied, with Ficino, Laudino, and Politian, at his side, he delighted his hours...Italian sky appears the most congenial accompaniment. " Never could the sympathies of the soul with outward nature be more finely touched : never could more... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 600 Seiten
...his death in 1492. Nor was mere philology the sole, or the leading pursuit to which so truly a noble mind accorded its encouragement. He sought in ancient...Italian sky appears the most congenial accompaniment. " Never could the sympathies of the soul with outward nature be more finely touched : never could more... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1845 - 886 Seiten
...flourished greatly under his fostering support. " Nor," says Hallam,* " was mere philology the sole, or the leading pursuit, to which so truly noble a...Italian sky appears the most congenial accompaniment. " Never could the sympathies of the soul with outward nature be more finely touched ; never could more... | |
 | sir Francis Palgrave - 1847 - 690 Seiten
...ancient Fiesole, in " gardens which Tully might have " envied, with Ficino, I,andino, and " Politianathis side, he delighted his " hours of leisure with the...summer stillness of an " Italian sky appears the most con" genial accompaniment. " Never could the sympathies of the " soul with outward nature be more "... | |
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In a villa overhanging the towers of Florence, on the steep slope of that lofty hill crowned by the mother city, the ancient Fiesole, in gardens which Tully might have envied, with Ficino, Landino, and Politian at his side, he delighted his hours of leisure... 
