 | Sir John Edwin Sandys - 1905 - 242 pages
...Essay on Machiavelli, that 'during the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall of the Roman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far...other part of Western Europe, the traces of ancient civilisation. The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer. The dawn began... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1906 - 572 pages
...fountain. During the Middle Ages, in the midst of prevailing darkness and disorder, Italy never wholly lost the traces of ancient civilization. "The night which...reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon." 1 The three great writers, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, introduced a new era of culture.... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1912 - 580 pages
...fountain. During the Middle Ages, in the midst of prevailing darkness and disorder, Italy never wholly lost the traces of ancient civilization. "The night which...last reflection of the preceding sunset had faded froin the horizon." ' The three great writers, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, introduced a new era... | |
 | Domenico Comparetti - 1908 - 400 pages
...as some have maintained. 80 " During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall of the Roman empire Italy had preserved in a far greater...than any other part of Western Europe the traces of anoient civilisation. The night which descended npon her was the night of an Arctic summer. The dawn... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1912 - 302 pages
...Macaulay's eloquent language, "during the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall of the Roman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far...other part of Western Europe, the traces of ancient civilisation. The night which descended upon her was the night of an arctic summer. The dawn began... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 pages
...discussing it at some length. During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall of the Roman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far...reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon. It was in the time of the French Merovingians and of the Saxon Heptarchy that ignorance and... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - 1915 - 484 pages
...third of the fourteenth '. ' During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall of the Roman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far...other part of Western Europe, the traces of ancient civilisation. The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer. The dawn began... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1921 - 542 pages
...discussing it at some length. During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall of the Roman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far...reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon. It was in the time of the French Merovingians and of the Saxon Heptarchy that ignorance and... | |
 | John Milton - 1928 - 402 pages
...178. * See below ,j>p. 319-30. 4 Rashdall, The Universities of Europe in the MiddIc Agf1 I. 30 ff. 6 'The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer.' Macbiavelti, in Essays i. 4. * Roger, L'Ensei pument Jes Lenres Classiqtus d'Ausone i Alcuin, pp. 7,... | |
 | John Milton - 1928 - 402 pages
...178. » See below.pp. 319-30. 4 Rashdall, "the Universities of Europe in the Middle Agfs 1. 30 ff. ' 'The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer." Machiavelli, in Essays 1. 4. 6 Roger, L' Enseigpement des Lettres Classijaes d'Ausone A Alcuin, pp.... | |
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During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall of the Roman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far greater degree than any other part of Western Europe, the traces of ancient civilization. 
