Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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Side 55
... Taffo , or his own Henriade , may be more read than Homer ; but does that show their excellence ? Is there as many people in the world who understand Greek , as there are who can read French or Italian ? The cuftom of most nations at ...
... Taffo , or his own Henriade , may be more read than Homer ; but does that show their excellence ? Is there as many people in the world who understand Greek , as there are who can read French or Italian ? The cuftom of most nations at ...
Side 62
... Taffo was yet in his infancy , when Triffino , the author of the firft tragedy in the vulgar language , undertook to write an epic poem . He chofe for his fubject the deliverance of Italy from the Goths , by Bellifarius , under the em ...
... Taffo was yet in his infancy , when Triffino , the author of the firft tragedy in the vulgar language , undertook to write an epic poem . He chofe for his fubject the deliverance of Italy from the Goths , by Bellifarius , under the em ...
Side 63
... Taffo . Trif- fino had great talents , and an extensive capacity he had been employed by Leo X. in many affairs of importance ; and had been with great fuccefs his am- baffador to Charles V. But at laft he facrificed his ambition , and ...
... Taffo . Trif- fino had great talents , and an extensive capacity he had been employed by Leo X. in many affairs of importance ; and had been with great fuccefs his am- baffador to Charles V. But at laft he facrificed his ambition , and ...
Side 74
... Taffo , made an authen- tic decifion , which adjudges the firft feat to Ariofto among the Italian epic poets . The moft zealous advocate for Taffo acknowledges , he attacks the general opinion , and that the public has already given it ...
... Taffo , made an authen- tic decifion , which adjudges the firft feat to Ariofto among the Italian epic poets . The moft zealous advocate for Taffo acknowledges , he attacks the general opinion , and that the public has already given it ...
Side 81
... Taffo , * Among many ftriking inftances of the people's veneration for Ariofto , he had one of a very parti- cular nature . The duke , his master , had sent him governor of the Garfagnana , a province on the Appenine , whofe inhabitants ...
... Taffo , * Among many ftriking inftances of the people's veneration for Ariofto , he had one of a very parti- cular nature . The duke , his master , had sent him governor of the Garfagnana , a province on the Appenine , whofe inhabitants ...
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Side 173 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Side 117 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs ; they, on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seemed Far off the flying fiend.
Side 172 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Side 184 - Thy banks ? — alas, is this the boafted fcene, This dreary, wide, uncultivated plain, Where fick'ning Nature wears a fainter green, And Defolation fpreads her torpid reign ? Is this the fcene where Freedom breath'd, Her copious horn where Plenty wreath'd. And health at opening day Bade all her rofeate breezes fly, To wake the fons of Induftry, And make their fields more gay?
Side 84 - Every one has something so singularly his own that no painter could have distinguished them more by their features than the poet has by their manners.
Side 116 - Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side...
Side 177 - Can Music's voice, can Beauty's eye, Can Painting's glowing hand supply A charm so suited to my mind, As blows this hollow gust of wind, As drops this little weeping rill Soft tinkling down the moss-grown hill, While through the west, where sinks the crimson day, Meek Twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray?
Side 112 - Ethereal Powers And Spirits, both them who stood and them who faild; Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not free, what proof could they have givn sincere Of true allegiance, constant Faith or Love, Where only what they needs must do, appeard, Not what they would?
Side 174 - Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate ; Beneath the good how far — but far above the great ! ODE VI.
Side 152 - They may be of fome ufe to the lower rank of writers ; but an author of genius has much finer materials of Nature's production, for elevating his fubject, and making it interefting.