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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... affection ; and , without doubt , had her sensibility been less , he would have directed his steps to a more hospitable abode . The natural beauties of Sorrento have been already de- Sorrento . scribed by Bernardo Tasso , in the first ...
... affection ; and , without doubt , had her sensibility been less , he would have directed his steps to a more hospitable abode . The natural beauties of Sorrento have been already de- Sorrento . scribed by Bernardo Tasso , in the first ...
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... affectionate care of a sister to a brother at once so renowned and helpless . We may add , too , his convalescence , the raptures of which , in his own case , are described in the following striking man- ner by Cowper , in an epistle to ...
... affectionate care of a sister to a brother at once so renowned and helpless . We may add , too , his convalescence , the raptures of which , in his own case , are described in the following striking man- ner by Cowper , in an epistle to ...
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... affections , is naturally the most efficacious , ) but was prompted by her tenderness to resort to the aid of physi- cians . They , according to the medical treatment of melan- choly adopted from the practice of the ancients , made use ...
... affections , is naturally the most efficacious , ) but was prompted by her tenderness to resort to the aid of physi- cians . They , according to the medical treatment of melan- choly adopted from the practice of the ancients , made use ...
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... affectionate advice , from the follow- ing letter of Cardinal Albano to Alphonso , printed , like many of those documents ... affection , that you will , on this occasion , af- ford your efficacious aid , in the manner that Sig . Scipio ...
... affectionate advice , from the follow- ing letter of Cardinal Albano to Alphonso , printed , like many of those documents ... affection , that you will , on this occasion , af- ford your efficacious aid , in the manner that Sig . Scipio ...
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... affectionate servant , The CARDINAL ALBANO . From Rome , the 30th of November , 1577. " With respect to the security which was required for the tranquillity of Tasso , it is probable that the duke gave a di- rect answer to Scipio ...
... affectionate servant , The CARDINAL ALBANO . From Rome , the 30th of November , 1577. " With respect to the security which was required for the tranquillity of Tasso , it is probable that the duke gave a di- rect answer to Scipio ...
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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...