The New Monthly Magazine, and Literary Journal ..., Volume 3Allen and Ticknor, 1822 |
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Page 175
... Ariosto . I cannot , however , with propriety say , that I prefer him . In my opinion he is the only poet , and yet I know them all . When I read your censure on Ariosto about fifteen years ago , I was persuaded you would retract your ...
... Ariosto . I cannot , however , with propriety say , that I prefer him . In my opinion he is the only poet , and yet I know them all . When I read your censure on Ariosto about fifteen years ago , I was persuaded you would retract your ...
Page 176
... Ariosto has been called the Divine , must have been inspired . " C. " Most certainly . " V. " And which is the passage ? " C. " The last thirty - six stanzas of the twenty - third canto . They describe the madness of Orlando with so ...
... Ariosto has been called the Divine , must have been inspired . " C. " Most certainly . " V. " And which is the passage ? " C. " The last thirty - six stanzas of the twenty - third canto . They describe the madness of Orlando with so ...
Page 177
... Ariosto twice or three times annually : he must , therefore , have necessarily impressed my memory without any effort on my part - I might say almost involuntarily . His genealogies and historical episodes , how- ever , are an exception ...
... Ariosto twice or three times annually : he must , therefore , have necessarily impressed my memory without any effort on my part - I might say almost involuntarily . His genealogies and historical episodes , how- ever , are an exception ...
Page 178
... Ariosto laugh . " It is a great pity , " exclaimed Madame Denis , " that Ariosto did not avoid exagge- rations . " " You are mistaken , my dear niece , " replied Voltaire , “ even his exaggerations are well conceived and extremely ...
... Ariosto laugh . " It is a great pity , " exclaimed Madame Denis , " that Ariosto did not avoid exagge- rations . " " You are mistaken , my dear niece , " replied Voltaire , “ even his exaggerations are well conceived and extremely ...
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... Ariosto , and Tasso . Men of the highest abilities in the other departments of human art and knowledge , have not disdained to pro- fess themselves the followers of one or the other of these four eminent writers . But though some of the ...
... Ariosto , and Tasso . Men of the highest abilities in the other departments of human art and knowledge , have not disdained to pro- fess themselves the followers of one or the other of these four eminent writers . But though some of the ...
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Page 417 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise...
Page 551 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 73 - I am not for criticising hedgerows and black cattle. I go out of town in order to forget the town and all that is in it. There are those who for this purpose go to wateringplaces, and carry the metropolis with them.
Page 240 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 240 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Page 26 - This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring . Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. It is the hush of night...
Page 239 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 238 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 531 - While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures...
Page 239 - LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun.