Orlando Furioso, Volume 1G. Nicol, 1785 - Italian poetry |
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... shield With hideous crafh ; the dreadful clangors rife , Swell from the vales , and echo to the skies ! Through either's breaft had pierc'd the pointed wood , 440 But the well - temper'd plates the force withstood . The fiery courfers ...
... shield With hideous crafh ; the dreadful clangors rife , Swell from the vales , and echo to the skies ! Through either's breaft had pierc'd the pointed wood , 440 But the well - temper'd plates the force withstood . The fiery courfers ...
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... shield : Now ward ; then with a flip elude the blow ; Now forward ftep ; then backward from the foe : Now round they move ; and where the one gives place , The other preffes on with eager pace . Brave Amon's fon * , collecting all his ...
... shield : Now ward ; then with a flip elude the blow ; Now forward ftep ; then backward from the foe : Now round they move ; and where the one gives place , The other preffes on with eager pace . Brave Amon's fon * , collecting all his ...
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... shield or banner , Pridwen , and his fpear , Roan , by the romance writers . In addition to this Note , a Friend has ... shields . This led me to imagine that this cus- tom was of eastern original , till I found in Geoffry of Monmouth ...
... shield or banner , Pridwen , and his fpear , Roan , by the romance writers . In addition to this Note , a Friend has ... shields . This led me to imagine that this cus- tom was of eastern original , till I found in Geoffry of Monmouth ...
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... shield : His eyes were moift with tears , his head declin'd , Sad indications of a troubled mind . 245 Urg'd by defire which prompts each generous heart In others woes to bear a friendly part , The virgin begs th ' afflicted knight to ...
... shield : His eyes were moift with tears , his head declin'd , Sad indications of a troubled mind . 245 Urg'd by defire which prompts each generous heart In others woes to bear a friendly part , The virgin begs th ' afflicted knight to ...
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... shield ; Whose polish'd orb , whene'er reveal'd to fight , The gazer ftrikes with fuch a powerful light ; 380 In death - like flumber on the ground he lies , And to the foe becomes an eafy prize ! 385 Bright as Pyropus fhines the ...
... shield ; Whose polish'd orb , whene'er reveal'd to fight , The gazer ftrikes with fuch a powerful light ; 380 In death - like flumber on the ground he lies , And to the foe becomes an eafy prize ! 385 Bright as Pyropus fhines the ...
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Orlando Furioso: Translated from the Italian, with Notes. in Six ..., Volume 4 Lodovico Ariosto,John Hoole No preview available - 2017 |
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Page lxi - Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight ; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain, which the reader throws away. He only is the master, who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity...
Page xxxvii - ... and the like, to the Echidna, to the Circe, to the Medea, to the Achilles, to the Syrens, to the Harpies, to the Phryxus, and the Bellerophon, of the ancients ? The cave of Polypheme might...
Page 208 - Of Camball, and of Algarfife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glafs, And of the wondrous horfe of brafs, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page xxxvii - Andromeda might give occafion for ftories of diftrefled damfels on the point of being devoured by dragons, and delivered at fuch a critical feafon by their favourite knights. Some faint traditions of the ancients might have been kept glimmering and alive during the whole barbarous ages, as they are called ', and it is not impofilble, but thefe have been the parents of the Genii in the eaftern, and the B 2 Fairies Fairies in the weftern world.
Page lxxxii - Ariosto, the chief of the banditti addressed him with intrepid gallantry, and told him, that since he was the author of the Orlando Furioso...
Page 59 - Or daunt unequall armies of his foes, Or when the flying heavens he would affray: For so exceeding shone his glistring ray, That Phoebus...
Page iv - He was the first to grant them quarter. The battle won, of Roland's soul Each milder virtue took possession ; To vanquish'd foes he o'er a bowl His heart surrender'd at discretion.
Page 35 - A multitude with fpades and axes arm'd To lay hills plain, fell woods, or valleys fill, Or where plain was raife hill, or overlay With bridges rivers proud, as with a yoke ; Mules after thefe, camels and dromedaries, 335 And waggons fraught with utenfils of war.
Page l - ... his narration. He charms by the force and clearness of his expression, by the readiness and variety of his inventions, and by his natural pictures of the passions, especially those of the gay and amorous kind : And however his faults may diminish our satisfaction, they are not able entirely to destroy it.
Page 78 - Merlin mewed to her in a roche [rock] whereas was a great wonder, and wrought by enchauntment, which went under a ftone, fo by her fubtile craft and working Ihe made Merlin to go under that ftone, to let him wit of the marvailes there.