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Page 102 - Per me si va nella città dolente; Per me si va nell'eterno dolore; Per me si va tra la perduta gente.
Page 284 - Vous nous reprochez nos e muets comme un son triste et sourd qui expire dans notre bouche ; mais c'est précisément dans ces e muets que consiste la grande harmonie de notre prose et de nos vers. Empire, couronne, diadème, flamme, tendresse, victoire; toutes ces désinences heureuses laissent dans l'oreille un son qui subsiste encore après le mot prononcé, comme un clavecin qui résonne quand les doigts ne frappent plus les touches.
Page 360 - Johnson would not follow me, and where I could for that reason command some little portion of time for my own use; a thing impossible while I remained at Streatham or at London, as my hours, carriage, and servants, had long been at his command, who would not rise in the morning till twelve o'clock perhaps, and oblige me to make breakfast for him till the bell...
Page 342 - Poor Baretti ! do not quarrel with him ; to neglect him a little will be sufficient. He means only to be frank, and manly, and independent, and perhaps, as you say, a little wise. To be frank, he thinks, is to be cynical ; and to be independent is to be rude. Forgive him, dearest lady, the rather, because of his misbehaviour I am afraid he learned part of me. I hope to set him hereafter a better example.
Page 267 - Così piuma talor, che di gentile amorosa colomba il collo cinge, mai non si scorge a se stessa simile, ma in diversi colori al sol si tinge. Or d'accesi rubin sembra un monile...
Page 134 - Furioso, he might be sure none of the company would injure him, but would see him, on the contrary, safe back to the castle ; and so they did, entertaining him all along the way with the various excellencies they had discovered in his poem, and bestowing upon it the most rapturous praises. A very rare proof of the irresistible powers of poetry, and a noble comment on the fables of Orpheus and Amphion, who drew wild beasts, and raised walls, with the enchanting sound of their lyres.
Page 105 - I could neither weep nor answer, and continued swallowed up in silent agony all that day, and the following night, even till the dawn of day. As soon as a glimmering ray darted through the doleful prison, that I could view again those four faces, in which my own image was impressed, I gnawed both my hands, with grief and rage.
Page 48 - Non sono questi forse due bellissimi epiteti? Certo bellissimi; ed io gli do ragione, e sono anzi per dare una picciola prova della verità di questo suo nobilissimo giudizio, con riferire otto soli versi della Gerusalemme Liberata, che sono questi: . Chiama gli abitator dell'ombre eterne...
Page 111 - Andreino a Player, and dedicated to Mary de Medicis Queen of France. The Subject of the play was the Fall of Man; the Actors, God, the Devils, the Angels, Adam, Eve, the Serpent, Death and the Seven mortal Sins. That...
Page 36 - ... maniera del parlare, per non allontanarsi affatto dal vero. Perciò i comici e i tragici antichi scelsero il verso iambo, avendo osservato che era il più frequente a trascorrer ne' comuni discorsi degli uomini.