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Página 190 - metto anch' io," says Ariosto, playfully, when he tells a particularly tough story. " I cannot tell how the truth may be, I say the tale as 'twas said to me," says the author of the " Lay" on a similar occasion. The resemblance Burns. The book speedily found that
Página 467 - Sentiments like these also give to Satan, in Paradise •* The semi-stanza, which describes the hoarse reverberations of the infernal trumpet in this Pandemonium, is cited by the Italians as a happy example of imitative harmony : " Chiama gli abitator dell'ombre eterne II rauco suon della tartarea tromba. Treman le spaziose atre caverne, E l'aer cieco a quel romor rimbomba.
Página 468 - piaggia erbosa a passo lento; Quelle al vago desio forma e descrive, E ministra materia al suo tormento ; Che l'imagine lor gelida e molle L'asciuga e scalda, e nel pensier ribolle."* .* "He that the gliding rivers erst had seen Adown their verdant channels gently roll'd, Or falling streams, which to the valleys green Can.
Página 468 - Se alcun giammai tra frondeggianti rive Puro vide stagnar liquido argento, O giù precipitose ir acque vive Per Alpe, o'n piaggia erbosa a passo lento; Quelle al vago desio forma e descrive, E ministra materia al suo tormento ; Che l'imagine lor gelida e molle L'asciuga e scalda, e nel pensier ribolle."*
Página 602 - Spectator bearing his own signature (No. 6), he observes, " The finest writers among the modern Italians [in contradistinction to the ancient Romans] express themselves in such a florid form of words, and such tedious circumlocutions, as are used by none but pedants in our own country,
Página 187 - like him from cottage to cottage over the world." " I doubt," said the grave clerk to the signet, "I greatly doubt, sir, you were born for nae better than a gangrel scrapegut !" Perhaps even the revelation, could it have been made to him, of his son's future literary
Página 611 - Dunque eh' i' non mi sfaccia, Si frale oggetto a si possente foco, Non è proprio valor, che me ne scampi ; Ma la paura un poco, Che '1 sangue vago per le vene agghiaccia, Risalda '1 cor, perché più tempo avvampi.
Página 320 - We are men ;' and they offered the calumet. An aged chief received them at his cabin with upraised hands, exclaiming, ' How beautiful is the sun, Frenchmen, when thou comest to visit us ! Our whole village awaits thee ; thou shalt enter in peace into all our dwellings.