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Page 65
... Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Afpice quam variis diftringar Lefbia curis ! Uror , & heu ! noftro manat ab igne liquor ; Sum Nilus , fumque Etna fimul ; reftringite flammas O lacrimæ , aut lacrimas ebibe flamma meas . VOL . I. F One One of ...
... Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Afpice quam variis diftringar Lefbia curis ! Uror , & heu ! noftro manat ab igne liquor ; Sum Nilus , fumque Etna fimul ; reftringite flammas O lacrimæ , aut lacrimas ebibe flamma meas . VOL . I. F One One of ...
Page 135
... Italian writer may be difco- vered by a mixture of longer and shorter ver- fes , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry , and his malignity to the Church by fome which are interpreted as threatening its extermination . line M He is ...
... Italian writer may be difco- vered by a mixture of longer and shorter ver- fes , according to the rules of Tuscan poetry , and his malignity to the Church by fome which are interpreted as threatening its extermination . line M He is ...
Page 136
... Italy , of which he had with particular diligence ftudied the language and literature ; and though he feems to have intended a very quick perambulation of the country , ftaid two months at Florence ; where he found his way into the ...
... Italy , of which he had with particular diligence ftudied the language and literature ; and though he feems to have intended a very quick perambulation of the country , ftaid two months at Florence ; where he found his way into the ...
Page 137
... Here Selvaggi praised him in a diftich , and Salfill in a tetraftick : neither of them of much value . The Italians were gainers by this literary I com- commerce ; for the encomiums with which Milton repaid Salfilli MILT O N. 137.
... Here Selvaggi praised him in a diftich , and Salfill in a tetraftick : neither of them of much value . The Italians were gainers by this literary I com- commerce ; for the encomiums with which Milton repaid Salfilli MILT O N. 137.
Page 138
... Italian teftimonies , poor as they are , he was proud enough to publish them before his poems ; though he fays , he cannot be fufpected but to have known that they were faid non tam de fe , quam fupra fe . At Rome , as at Florence , he ...
... Italian teftimonies , poor as they are , he was proud enough to publish them before his poems ; though he fays , he cannot be fufpected but to have known that they were faid non tam de fe , quam fupra fe . At Rome , as at Florence , he ...
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