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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... person of Tasso . - His dress . - Conversation . - Christian virtues and moral qualities.— His defects . - Intellectual character and endowments . — Excellence of his poetical taste.- Reflections on the beauties and defects of the ...
... person of Tasso . - His dress . - Conversation . - Christian virtues and moral qualities.— His defects . - Intellectual character and endowments . — Excellence of his poetical taste.- Reflections on the beauties and defects of the ...
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... person , ( unless a lover near the mistress of his heart , ) who lives in the midst of them . Such a person , if his mind be active , will meet little pleasure in groves and streams ; he will find that lying in the shade is a solace ...
... person , ( unless a lover near the mistress of his heart , ) who lives in the midst of them . Such a person , if his mind be active , will meet little pleasure in groves and streams ; he will find that lying in the shade is a solace ...
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... person so meritorious , and who is very dear to me , both from the respect of country and other motives , your highness will infinitely oblige me , and I shall take every opportunity of testifying my grati tude . To conclude , I pray ...
... person so meritorious , and who is very dear to me , both from the respect of country and other motives , your highness will infinitely oblige me , and I shall take every opportunity of testifying my grati tude . To conclude , I pray ...
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... person of this class , naturally of ex- cellent parts , to write a letter for me , at a time when he was maintaining very absurd and ridiculous positions . This letter , which I have still by me , is full of good reasoning and good ...
... person of this class , naturally of ex- cellent parts , to write a letter for me , at a time when he was maintaining very absurd and ridiculous positions . This letter , which I have still by me , is full of good reasoning and good ...
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... person whose imagination was thus always crea- ting new phantasies , and whose reason was ever ready to support them , it was scarcely possible to act so as not to render him dissatisfied . This was the more difficult , as , like ...
... person whose imagination was thus always crea- ting new phantasies , and whose reason was ever ready to support them , it was scarcely possible to act so as not to render him dissatisfied . This was the more difficult , as , like ...
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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...