Orlando Furioso, Volume 5Otridge and Son [etc.] at the Union Printing-Office, 1807 |
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... wondering ears Laments and groans the listening warrior hears , That reach'd through winding vaults the upper air ; Sure sign of Hell and endless torments there . Astolpho now resolves t ' explore the way , And visit beings lost to ...
... wondering ears Laments and groans the listening warrior hears , That reach'd through winding vaults the upper air ; Sure sign of Hell and endless torments there . Astolpho now resolves t ' explore the way , And visit beings lost to ...
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... wondering view'd what to our sight Appears a narrow round of silver light : Nor could he thence but with a sharpen'd eye And bending brow our lands and seas descry , The land and seas he left , which , clad in shade So far remote , to ...
... wondering view'd what to our sight Appears a narrow round of silver light : Nor could he thence but with a sharpen'd eye And bending brow our lands and seas descry , The land and seas he left , which , clad in shade So far remote , to ...
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... wondering Paladin the heaps admir'd , And now of these and now of those enquir'd . Empedocles ; and he who to enjoy Plato's elysium , leapt into the sea , Cleombrotus ; and many more too long , Embryos and ideots , eremites and friars ...
... wondering Paladin the heaps admir'd , And now of these and now of those enquir'd . Empedocles ; and he who to enjoy Plato's elysium , leapt into the sea , Cleombrotus ; and many more too long , Embryos and ideots , eremites and friars ...
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... wondering eyes : thousand told , ten thousand would remain ; ch toil , each loss , each chance that men sustain , 620 625 er . 623. Which on Sylvester Constantine bestow'd . ] " By this gift derstood the city of Rome , which Constantine ...
... wondering eyes : thousand told , ten thousand would remain ; ch toil , each loss , each chance that men sustain , 620 625 er . 623. Which on Sylvester Constantine bestow'd . ] " By this gift derstood the city of Rome , which Constantine ...
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... wondering more he gaz'd Ver . 649. Orlando's wit . ] This fiction of Ariosto is most wittily alluded to by Mr. Pope in his Rape of the Lock , accompanied with a fine stroke of satire : speaking of things lost in the moon , he says ...
... wondering more he gaz'd Ver . 649. Orlando's wit . ] This fiction of Ariosto is most wittily alluded to by Mr. Pope in his Rape of the Lock , accompanied with a fine stroke of satire : speaking of things lost in the moon , he says ...
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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...