Life of Torquato Tasso: With an Historical and Critical Account of His Writings, Volume 2John Murray, 92, Fleet Street, London, 1810 |
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... Italian court , of which I have already given the picture by Guarini , ( vol . I. p . 344 , ) and which appears with no greater charms in a passage of the Adone , where Marino relates the incidents of his own life . 3 Aet . 34 . Our ...
... Italian court , of which I have already given the picture by Guarini , ( vol . I. p . 344 , ) and which appears with no greater charms in a passage of the Adone , where Marino relates the incidents of his own life . 3 Aet . 34 . Our ...
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... Italy , and of a Neapolitan mother ; but I deduce my paternal origin from Bergamo , a city of Lom- bardy ; my name and surname I conceal , and such is their obscurity , that , should I reveal them , it would not afford you any light : I ...
... Italy , and of a Neapolitan mother ; but I deduce my paternal origin from Bergamo , a city of Lom- bardy ; my name and surname I conceal , and such is their obscurity , that , should I reveal them , it would not afford you any light : I ...
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... Italy , or of Europe , is that good cardinal known , where he is not esteemed ? While we thus talked , there came another youth , younger than the other , but not less handsome , who told us that his father was re- turning to the house ...
... Italy , or of Europe , is that good cardinal known , where he is not esteemed ? While we thus talked , there came another youth , younger than the other , but not less handsome , who told us that his father was re- turning to the house ...
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... Italy were , in the sixteenth century , composed in the form of dia- logue . As a method of communicating knowledge , however , ( ex- Its defects . cept in cases which are extremely obvious , and susceptible of a variety of lights , and ...
... Italy were , in the sixteenth century , composed in the form of dia- logue . As a method of communicating knowledge , however , ( ex- Its defects . cept in cases which are extremely obvious , and susceptible of a variety of lights , and ...
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... not then appear , as now , the rival of Ho- mer and of Virgil , the glory of Italy , and of human genius . Tired at last of solicitation ; unregarded by the duke and VOL . II . H A. D. 1579 . Aet . 35 . CHAP . LIFE OF TASSO . 57.
... not then appear , as now , the rival of Ho- mer and of Virgil , the glory of Italy , and of human genius . Tired at last of solicitation ; unregarded by the duke and VOL . II . H A. D. 1579 . Aet . 35 . CHAP . LIFE OF TASSO . 57.
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Page 471 - Was gather'd, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Page 468 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso 5 are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief, model...
Page 474 - ... heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar Gods; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptized or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia.
Page 460 - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home ; and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 468 - ... the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso, are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model: or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are strictly to be kept, or nature to be...
Page 164 - Hail, wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else! By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Page 475 - But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain ; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.
Page 441 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas, poor Richard ! where rides he the whilst? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Page 477 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 475 - Italian, the most mellifluous of all modern poetry, seems fully convinced of the unfitness of our language for smooth versification, and is therefore pleased with an opportunity of calling in a softer word to his assistance : for this reason, and I believe for this only, he sometimes indulges himself in a long series of proper names, and introduces them where they add little but music to his poem : — The richer seat Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd Guiana, whose great city Gerion's sons Call El...