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William Hickling Prescott è stato uno storico statunitense.

✵ 4. Maggio 1796 – 28. Gennaio 1859
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William H. Prescott: Frasi in inglese

“The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.”

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William H. Prescott

"Chateaubriand's English Literature" (1839), p. 245.
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“No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it.”

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William H. Prescott

"Scottish Song" (1826), p. 588.
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“The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakespeare will be renewed with greater and greater lustre in ages yet unborn, when the victorious chieftain shall be forgotten, or shall live only in the song of the minstrel and the page of the chronicler.”

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William H. Prescott

"Sir Walter Scott" (1838), p. 239.
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