Dante in English Literature from Chaucer to Cary (c.1380-1833)Methuen & Company, 1909 - Comparative literature |
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... seems to have preferred Ariosto and Tasso to Dante , whom he admired apparently more as a patriot than as a poet . He expressed his appreciation , however , for Cary's translation , which in conversation with Alexander Dyce he described ...
... seems to have preferred Ariosto and Tasso to Dante , whom he admired apparently more as a patriot than as a poet . He expressed his appreciation , however , for Cary's translation , which in conversation with Alexander Dyce he described ...
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... seems here excluded ; and that knell , It neither damps the gay , nor checks the witty . Alas ! too busy Rival of old Tyre , Whose merchants Princes were , whose decks were thrones ; Soon may the punctual sea in vain respire To serve ...
... seems here excluded ; and that knell , It neither damps the gay , nor checks the witty . Alas ! too busy Rival of old Tyre , Whose merchants Princes were , whose decks were thrones ; Soon may the punctual sea in vain respire To serve ...
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... seems to have been consciously or unconsciously indebted to Chaucer's rendering of the Ugolino episode , for one of his lines , ' To see such bird in such a nest . ' sounds like an echo of Chaucer's ' Swiche birddes for to putte in ...
... seems to have been consciously or unconsciously indebted to Chaucer's rendering of the Ugolino episode , for one of his lines , ' To see such bird in such a nest . ' sounds like an echo of Chaucer's ' Swiche birddes for to putte in ...
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... seems as ' t were a curse upon the seats Of former sovereigns , and the antique brood Of Este , which for many an age made good Its strength within thy walls , and was of yore Patron or tyrant , as the changing mood Of petty power ...
... seems as ' t were a curse upon the seats Of former sovereigns , and the antique brood Of Este , which for many an age made good Its strength within thy walls , and was of yore Patron or tyrant , as the changing mood Of petty power ...
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... seems more 1 [ See above , vol . i . p . 343. It was engraved by John Dixon in 1774. ] 2 [ This MS . was purchased at the Askew sale in 1775 for £ 7 78. - See description in the catalogue published in 1819 ( below , p . 288 ) ...
... seems more 1 [ See above , vol . i . p . 343. It was engraved by John Dixon in 1774. ] 2 [ This MS . was purchased at the Askew sale in 1775 for £ 7 78. - See description in the catalogue published in 1819 ( below , p . 288 ) ...
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Page 318 - As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 679 - Lasciasser d' operare ogni lor arte ; Ma con piena letizia, l' ore prime Cantando, riceveano intra le foglie, Che tenevan bordone alle sue rime Tal, qual di ramo in ramo si raccoglie Per la pineta, in sul lito di Chiassi, Quand' Eolo scirocco fuor discioglie.
Page 317 - It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
Page 317 - I am become a name ; for always roaming with a hungry heart much have I seen and known ; cities of men and manners, climates, councils, governments, myself not least, but...
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Page 249 - Knights, ladies, praying in dumb orat'ries, He passeth by ; and his weak spirit fails To think how they may ache in icy hoods and mails.
Page 315 - THE poet in a golden clime was born, With golden stars above; Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Page 42 - Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart Of those who sail the seas, on the first day When they from their sweet friends are torn apart ; Or fills with love the pilgrim on his way, As the far bell of vesper makes him start, Seeming to weep the dying day's decay.
Page 318 - There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads...
Page 223 - Every man's mind is, in this respect, modified by all the objects of nature and art; by every word and every suggestion which he ever admitted to act upon his consciousness; it is the mirror upon which all forms are reflected, and in which they compose one form. Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.