LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 26
... Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , & heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor ; Sum Nilus , sumque Etna simul ; reftringite flammas O lacrimæ , aut lacrimas ebibe flamma meas . One of the severe ...
... Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , & heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor ; Sum Nilus , sumque Etna simul ; reftringite flammas O lacrimæ , aut lacrimas ebibe flamma meas . One of the severe ...
Page 51
... Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter veises , ac- cording to the rules of Tefcan poetry ... Italy , of which he had with particular diligence studied the language and li- terature : and though he seems to ...
... Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter veises , ac- cording to the rules of Tefcan poetry ... Italy , of which he had with particular diligence studied the language and li- terature : and though he seems to ...
Page 52
... Italians were gainers by this literary commerce ; for the encomiums with which Milton repaid Salsilli , though not secure against a stern gram- marian , turn the balance indisputably in Milton's favour . Of these Italian testimonics ...
... Italians were gainers by this literary commerce ; for the encomiums with which Milton repaid Salsilli , though not secure against a stern gram- marian , turn the balance indisputably in Milton's favour . Of these Italian testimonics ...
Page 67
... Italian tragedy . Voltaire tells a wild and unauthorised story of a farce seen by Milton in Italy , which opened thus : Let the Rainbow be the Fiddlestick of the Fiddle of Heaven . It has been already shewn , that the first con- ception ...
... Italian tragedy . Voltaire tells a wild and unauthorised story of a farce seen by Milton in Italy , which opened thus : Let the Rainbow be the Fiddlestick of the Fiddle of Heaven . It has been already shewn , that the first con- ception ...
Page 73
... Italian , Spanish , is and French . All which sorts of books to be confined to read , without under- * standing one word , must needs be a trial of patience almost beyond endurance ; " Yet it was endured by both for a long time , though ...
... Italian , Spanish , is and French . All which sorts of books to be confined to read , without under- * standing one word , must needs be a trial of patience almost beyond endurance ; " Yet it was endured by both for a long time , though ...
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