 | George Park Fisher - 1901 - 672 ページ
...of prevailing darkness and disorder, Italy never wholly lost the traces of ancient civilization. " The night which descended upon her was the night of...the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon." 2 The three great writers, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, introduced a new era of culture. To the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 666 ページ
...considerations, both political and metaphysical, we shall make no apology for discussing it at some length. During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed...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 ferocity... | |
 | William Ross Hardie - 1903 - 370 ページ
...his essay on Machiavelli) remarks that in Italy the darkness had been less opaque than elsewhere. ' The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer.' It was, roughly, about the middle of the fourteenth century—1350—that the new movement began. For... | |
 | William Ross Hardie - 1903 - 368 ページ
...(in his essay on Machiavelli) remarks that in Italy the darkness had been less opaque than elsewhere. ‘The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer.' It was, roughly, about the middle of the fourteenth century—I 350—that the new movement began.... | |
 | John Edwin Sandys - 1905 - 236 ページ
...presence of the ruins of Rome. It has been finely said by Macaulay, in his Essay on Machiavelli, that 'during the gloomy and disastrous centuries which...the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon.' But we may fairly add that, although the night was luminous, the sun was absent, and Petrarch was the... | |
 | Sir John Edwin Sandys - 1905 - 242 ページ
...presence of the ruins of Rome. It has been finely, said by Macaulay, in his Essay on Machiavelli, that ‘during the gloomy and disastrous centuries which...the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon.' But we may fairly add that, although the night was luminous, the sun was absent, and Petrarch was the... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1906 - 568 ページ
...midst of prevailing darkness and disorder, Italy never wholly lost the traces of ancient civilization. "The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer. The dawn began to reappearbefore the last reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon." ' The three... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1920 - 574 ページ
...midst of prevailing darkness and disorder, Italy never wholly lost the traces of ancient civilization. "The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer. The dawn began to reappearbefore the last reflection of the preceding sunset had fadi from the horizon." ' The three... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1912 - 580 ページ
...midst of prevailing darkness and disorder, Italy never wholly lost the traces of ancient civilization. "The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer. The dawn began to reappearbefore the last reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon." ' The three... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1906 - 572 ページ
...civilization. "The night which descended upon her of an Arctic summer. The dawn began to reappearbefore the last reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon." ' The three great writers, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, introduced a new era of culture. To the... | |
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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 civilisation. The night which descended upon her was... 
