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Page 13
... Italy . Thus Sannazarost ༥ ་ ་་་ ༦ Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Etna simul ; restringite flamma O lacrimæ , aut lacrimas ebibe flamma meas . One of the ...
... Italy . Thus Sannazarost ༥ ་ ་་་ ༦ Aspice quam variis distringar Lesbia curis ! Uror , et heu ! nostro manat ab igne liquor : Sum Nilus , sumque Etna simul ; restringite flamma O lacrimæ , aut lacrimas ebibe flamma meas . One of the ...
Page 27
... Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , accord- ing to the rules of Tuscan poetry ... Italy , of which he had with par ticular diligence studied the language and litera- ture ; and though he seems to ...
... Italian writers may be discovered by a mixture of longer and shorter verses , accord- ing to the rules of Tuscan poetry ... Italy , of which he had with par ticular diligence studied the language and litera- ture ; and though he seems to ...
Page 37
... Italian tragedy . Vol- taire tells . a wild and unauthorized story of a farce seen by Milton in Italy , which opened thus : Let the rainbow be the fiddle - stick of the fid- dle of Heaven . * It has been already shown , that the first ...
... Italian tragedy . Vol- taire tells . a wild and unauthorized story of a farce seen by Milton in Italy , which opened thus : Let the rainbow be the fiddle - stick of the fid- dle of Heaven . * It has been already shown , that the first ...
Page 41
... Italian , Spanish , and French . All which sorts He could not , as Elwood relates , endure to hear of books to be confined to read , without under- " Paradise Lost " preferred to " Paradise Re- standing one word , must needs be a trial ...
... Italian , Spanish , and French . All which sorts He could not , as Elwood relates , endure to hear of books to be confined to read , without under- " Paradise Lost " preferred to " Paradise Re- standing one word , must needs be a trial ...
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... Italian , French , and Spanish . In Latin his skill was such as places him in the first rank of writers and critics ; and he appears to have cultivated Italian with uncommon diligence . The books in which his daughter 42 MILTON.
... Italian , French , and Spanish . In Latin his skill was such as places him in the first rank of writers and critics ; and he appears to have cultivated Italian with uncommon diligence . The books in which his daughter 42 MILTON.
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