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  • The tale of Imelda is related in Sismondi's Historie des Republiques Italiennes.

    Records of Woman, With Other Poems 1828

  • Mrs. Barclay wrote to her unknown correspondent, "Send me 'Sismondi';" "send me Hallam's

    Nobody Susan Warner 1852

  • The historian Sismondi declared, "You have not known Madame de Staël at all if you have not seen her with Benjamin Constant."

    The Great de Staël Holmes, Richard 2009

  • In the last year also died Sismondi, who by his History of the Italian

    Uncollected Prose 2006

  • “For instance, he is collecting a library and has made it a rule not to buy a new book till he has read what he had already bought — Sismondi and Rousseau and Montesquieu,” he added with a smile.

    War and Peace 2003

  • All these works radiate from one center, Coppet, Madame de Staël's château near Geneva, and Sismondi, Bouterwek, and Madame de Staël are, as far as the concept of “romantic” is concerned, definitely dependent on Schlegel.

    ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Sismondi disliked Schlegel personally and was shocked by many of his “reactionary” views.

    ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Coxe and Sismondi, good easy men whose merit con - sisted chiefly in making things more accessible which were quite well known already.

    HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • The reac - tion to the scholarly Sismondi was fairly mild, to the foreign Schlegel violent, and to Madame de Staël it was mixed and frequently baffled.

    ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Page 192, Volume 4 tion was popularized in England only through Madame de Staël, who made Schlegel and Sismondi known in

    ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968

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