Life of Torquato Tasso: With an Historical and Critical Account of His Writings, Volume 1John Murray, 92, Fleet Street, London, 1810 |
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... idea which appears to have been the prevail- ing principle of his conduct , and how the im- pulse was communicated ; the relation in which he stood to his predecessors and contemporaries in the same career ; the causes which contribu ...
... idea which appears to have been the prevail- ing principle of his conduct , and how the im- pulse was communicated ; the relation in which he stood to his predecessors and contemporaries in the same career ; the causes which contribu ...
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... ideas for the voyage of life , is , I believe , the principal cause of this unhappy frame of mind . ” * I have observed , indeed , that of men , who , like Johnson , have been in the habit of sinking into fre- quent fits of despondence ...
... ideas for the voyage of life , is , I believe , the principal cause of this unhappy frame of mind . ” * I have observed , indeed , that of men , who , like Johnson , have been in the habit of sinking into fre- quent fits of despondence ...
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... ideas of luminous order , and masterly arrangement , the principles of which he had already imbibed ; at a time , too , when the genius of Ariosto had given grace to disorder , and , unconfined in its influence by the Alps or the Ocean ...
... ideas of luminous order , and masterly arrangement , the principles of which he had already imbibed ; at a time , too , when the genius of Ariosto had given grace to disorder , and , unconfined in its influence by the Alps or the Ocean ...
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... Alamanni , & c . This will give a high idea of the poeti- cal abilities of the two who have preceded so far in a course where so many were con- tending for victory . CHAPTER IV . Remarks on the feudal system , and 68 LIFE OF TASSO .
... Alamanni , & c . This will give a high idea of the poeti- cal abilities of the two who have preceded so far in a course where so many were con- tending for victory . CHAPTER IV . Remarks on the feudal system , and 68 LIFE OF TASSO .
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... idea of in- dependence , from the habit of despising danger , the senti- ment of strength , and the condition of society , arose the singular institution of chivalry . Even in the forests of Ger- many , the initiation of a youth to the ...
... idea of in- dependence , from the habit of despising danger , the senti- ment of strength , and the condition of society , arose the singular institution of chivalry . Even in the forests of Ger- many , the initiation of a youth to the ...
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Page 208 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out His seraphim with the...
Page 184 - Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 181 - The bliss of man (could pride that blessing find) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. Say what the use were finer optics given, T...
Page 140 - ... chief glory of their wit, in that they were ablest to judge, to praise, and by that could esteem themselves worthiest to love those high perfections, which under one or other name they took to celebrate; I thought with myself by every instinct and presage of nature, which is not wont to be false, that what emboldened them to this task, might with such diligence as they used embolden me...
Page 330 - Thus, from the laureat fraternity of poets, riper years and the ceaseless round of study and reading led me to the shady spaces of philosophy ; but chiefly to the divine volumes of Plato, and his equal Xenophon : where, if I should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love, I mean that which is truly so...
Page 208 - Siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out His Seraphim with the hallowed fire of His altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases...
Page 330 - I mean that which is truly so, whose charming cup is only virtue, which she bears in her hand to those who are worthy (the rest are cheated with a thick intoxicating potion, which a certain sorceress, the abuser of love's name, carries about); and how the first and chiefest office of love begins and ends in the soul, producing those happy twins of her divine generation, knowledge and virtue.
Page 61 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 140 - Nor blame it, readers, in those years to propose to themselves such a reward, as the noblest dispositions above other things in this life have sometimes preferred: whereof not to be sensible when good and fair in one person meet, argues both a gross and shallow judgment, and withal an ungentle and swainish breast.
Page 374 - Stimi (sì misto il culto è col negletto) Sol naturali e gli ornamenti , ei siti. Di natura arte par , che per diletto L'imitatrice sua scherzando imiti. L'aura non ch'altro, è della maga effetto. L'aura che rende gli alberi fioriti: Co' fiori eterni eterno il frutto dura: E mentre spunta l'un, l'altro matura.