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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... poets . — Description of the person of Tasso . - His dress . - Conversation . - Christian virtues and moral ... poet , on the various accidents of his Life . No. XXIII . - Sonnets to the Cats of St Anne's Hospital . - 396 407 No ...
... poets . — Description of the person of Tasso . - His dress . - Conversation . - Christian virtues and moral ... poet , on the various accidents of his Life . No. XXIII . - Sonnets to the Cats of St Anne's Hospital . - 396 407 No ...
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... poet . He considers also as ridiculous , a story told by Muratori , which seems to have been diffused at a very early period . One day ( according to this story , ) Tasso being at court in company with Alphonso and his sisters , some ...
... poet . He considers also as ridiculous , a story told by Muratori , which seems to have been diffused at a very early period . One day ( according to this story , ) Tasso being at court in company with Alphonso and his sisters , some ...
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... poet was persecuted at the court of Ferrara , where to live with comfort was almost im- possible . In such a situation there was much scope for the operation of petty competition and of private malignity . In addition to the collusion ...
... poet was persecuted at the court of Ferrara , where to live with comfort was almost im- possible . In such a situation there was much scope for the operation of petty competition and of private malignity . In addition to the collusion ...
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... poet , however , was greatly delighted with the permis- CHAP . XIII . sion of returning to Ferrara , and easily consented to all the A.D. 1578 . conditions imposed on him . This he did the more readily , as he had lately suffered a ...
... poet , however , was greatly delighted with the permis- CHAP . XIII . sion of returning to Ferrara , and easily consented to all the A.D. 1578 . conditions imposed on him . This he did the more readily , as he had lately suffered a ...
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... poet in more happy times at Ferrara , and who , seeing him arrive in so melancholy a condition , received him in a very kind and affectionate manner . This noble- man was the son of Sigismond , brother of Hercules I. Duke of Ferrara ...
... poet in more happy times at Ferrara , and who , seeing him arrive in so melancholy a condition , received him in a very kind and affectionate manner . This noble- man was the son of Sigismond , brother of Hercules I. Duke of Ferrara ...
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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...