 OF all the cities in Romanian lands, The chief and most renown'd Ravenna stands : Adorn'd in ancient times with arms and arts, And rich inhabitants, with generous hearts.  The Quarterly Reviewedited by - 1826Full view - About this book
 | Charles Harold Herford - 1902 - 364 pages
...Candia they remove, And happy each at home enjoys his love. vin. THEODORE AND HONORIA From Boecace f\F all the cities in Romanian lands, ^ The chief and...and arts, And rich inhabitants with generous hearts. But Theodore the brave, above the rest, With gifts of fortune and of nature blessed, The foremost place... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1904 - 524 pages
...From a true lover, shadowed my mind's eye. Dryden's " Theodore and Honoria " begins with these words: Of all the cities in Romanian lands, The chief, and...arts, And rich inhabitants, with generous hearts. It was at Ravenna that Dante passed the last years of his life, and there he died and was buried. 41.... | |
 | 1908 - 468 pages
...whom it came, — A Parent envy cannot make unjust. GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO. Tr. Francis C, Gray. RAVENNA OF all the cities in Romanian lands, The chief, and...arts, And rich inhabitants, with generous hearts. JOHN DEYDEN. RAVENNA SWEET hour of twilight ! in the solitude Of the pine forest, and the silent shore... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 pages
...[Publ 1700] Or all the cities in Rumanian lands, The chief, and most reuown'd, Ravenna stands, Adoru'd : — Long, But Theodore the brave, above the rest, With gifts of fortune and of nature blest, The foremost place... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 382 pages
...eyes wide upon a dark fantastic world; and his ear was never fitter. The poem makes a rousing start: Of all the cities in Romanian lands, The chief, and...arts, And rich inhabitants, with generous hearts. But Theodore the brave, above the rest, With gifts of fortune and of nature blest, The foremost place... | |
 | 1826 - 642 pages
...almost imperceptible, and making the recurrence of the chosen letter or letters operate, as a key-note in music. Take the first least ostentatious example...than we suppose that Mozart balanced all the rules of thorough bass in the first imagination of a bravura song. We think ourselves warranted, then, in saying... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pages
...and leave the chaff behind. Theodore and Honoria From Boccaccio Of all the cities in Romanian lands,0 The chief and most renowned Ravenna stands; Adorned...and arts, And rich inhabitants with generous hearts. But Theodore the brave, above the rest With gifts of fortune and of nature blessed, The foremost place... | |
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