Orlando Furioso, Volume 5Otridge and Son [etc.] at the Union Printing-Office, 1807 |
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... Heaven these stifling fumes repel , As thou shalt deign thy mournful state to tell ; 65 70 Thy tidings to our living world I bear , If this can aught avail to soothe thy care . The ghost reply'd --- To visit but in name The cheerful ...
... Heaven these stifling fumes repel , As thou shalt deign thy mournful state to tell ; 65 70 Thy tidings to our living world I bear , If this can aught avail to soothe thy care . The ghost reply'd --- To visit but in name The cheerful ...
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... Heaven and spurns the world below , Ascending till with rapid steady flight $ 10 He gains the mansion of supernal light . Not emerald here so bright a verdure yields As the fair turf of those celestial fields , O'er whose glad face the ...
... Heaven and spurns the world below , Ascending till with rapid steady flight $ 10 He gains the mansion of supernal light . Not emerald here so bright a verdure yields As the fair turf of those celestial fields , O'er whose glad face the ...
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... Heaven and Nature from their wrath bestow'd In evil hour for man's unblest abode . Near and more near the stately walls he drew In steadfast gaze , transported at the view : 405 Ver . 388 .--- while from th ' enamell'd field ] The ...
... Heaven and Nature from their wrath bestow'd In evil hour for man's unblest abode . Near and more near the stately walls he drew In steadfast gaze , transported at the view : 405 Ver . 388 .--- while from th ' enamell'd field ] The ...
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... Heaven designs ; but first with due repast efresh thy strength , unnerv'd with length of fast .. So spoke the holy sire : the duke amaz'd ith heart - felt awe and mute attention gaz'd : hen now the Saint disclos'd his sacred name , e ...
... Heaven designs ; but first with due repast efresh thy strength , unnerv'd with length of fast .. So spoke the holy sire : the duke amaz'd ith heart - felt awe and mute attention gaz'd : hen now the Saint disclos'd his sacred name , e ...
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... Heaven above the sons of earth With nerves and courage , gifted to sustain With limbs unhurt each weapon aim'd in vain : To whom such virtue Heaven's Supreme had lent To guard his faith unstain'd ; as when he sent Great Sampson forth ...
... Heaven above the sons of earth With nerves and courage , gifted to sustain With limbs unhurt each weapon aim'd in vain : To whom such virtue Heaven's Supreme had lent To guard his faith unstain'd ; as when he sent Great Sampson forth ...
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Afric's Alamanni Alcestes appear'd Ariosto Arli's arms Astolpho band Bardino Behold Biserta's BOOK OF ORLANDO Bradamant Brandimart brave breast Calandro Charles Christian clos'd combat confess'd Correggio courser cruel cry'd dame death deeds Dido dreadful drew Dudon duke Durindana earth eyes fair faith falchion fam'd fame fate fear fell female field fierce fight Flordelis force Fornari friends Frontino fury gain'd gentle Gradasso hand heart Heaven honour impious join'd joust king Agramant knew knight land late length lord lov'd maid Malagigi Marganor Marphisa martial ne'er noble numbers o'er Olivero ORLANDO FURIOSO Pagan Paladin plac'd poet pointed lance praise prepar'd press'd prov'd pursu'd pursue rage rais'd reach'd receiv'd Rinaldo Rodomont Rogero Sansonetto scarce seem'd shore show'd sight sire slain Sobrino soon soul spear steed stood stroke Strozza supply'd sword thee thou thought tide turn'd urg'd view'd virgin vow'd warrior waves weapon wind wound wretched yield
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Page 32 - The sport of winds : all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly o'er the backside of the world far off, Into a limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of fools, to few unknown Long after, now unpeopled, and untrod.
Page 49 - Proscriber had descended to us in a more hideous form than they now appear, if the emperor had not taken care to make friends of him and Horace. I confess the banishment of Ovid was a blot in his escutcheon; yet he was only banished, and who knows but his crime was capital?
Page 12 - I Pilate am, the falsest Judge, alas ! And most unjust ; that, by unrighteous And wicked doome, to...
Page 24 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils.
Page 97 - Scarse do they spare to one or two or three, Rowme in their writs; yet the same writing small Does all their deeds deface, and dims their glories all.
Page 32 - There vows and there unnumbered prayers remain, Which oft to God the sinner makes in vain ; The frequent tears that lovers' eyes suffuse, The sighs they breathe, the days that gamesters lose ; The leisure given which fools so oft neglect, The weak designs that never take effect. Whate'er...
Page 68 - TRUE is, that whilome that good Poet sayd, The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne : For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd As by his manners ; in which plaine is showne Of what degree and what race he is growne...
Page 85 - To threatening death amid the seas and wind. But Fortune, that decreed you, yet unborn, With glorious deeds your country to adorn, 480 Your vessel to a realm unpeopled bore, And safely landed on the Syrtes' shore. Eas'd of her birth, to death your parent bends, Her spotless soul to Paradise ascends. Such was your fate, so will'd some favouring power, Myself was present at the needful hour: Then (as the place allow'd) this friendly hand Interr'd your mother on the lonely strand : Wrapt in my vest...
Page 35 - Whose womb Orlando's godlike reason held : This well he knew, for on its side were writ These words in letters fair, ORLANDO'S WIT*.
Page 143 - Ilion, and the Grecian fate ; Full oft I told ; at length for parting mov'd : The king with mighty gifts my suit approv'd. The adverse winds in leathern bags he brac'd, Compress'd...