The Quarterly review, Volumen 21Murray, 1819 |
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... Orlando Furioso , ac- cording to their poetical nomenclature , is their chief romantic , and the Gerusalemme Liberata their first heroic poem . The Secchia Rapita of Tassoni is accounted a chef - d'œuvre in the heroic - comic style ...
... Orlando Furioso , ac- cording to their poetical nomenclature , is their chief romantic , and the Gerusalemme Liberata their first heroic poem . The Secchia Rapita of Tassoni is accounted a chef - d'œuvre in the heroic - comic style ...
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... Orlando Furioso , Angelica is a fascinating coquette ; but we sympathise with her in the In- namorato , when we behold her kneeling in despair to Rinaldo , who spurns her . When he is plunged in an enchanted dungeon , she appears before ...
... Orlando Furioso , Angelica is a fascinating coquette ; but we sympathise with her in the In- namorato , when we behold her kneeling in despair to Rinaldo , who spurns her . When he is plunged in an enchanted dungeon , she appears before ...
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... Orlando Furioso the web is entangled , and the memory of the reader can scarcely assist him in tracing each complicated narration to its end . The events do not lead to one grand catastrophe , neither do they arise out of the main ...
... Orlando Furioso the web is entangled , and the memory of the reader can scarcely assist him in tracing each complicated narration to its end . The events do not lead to one grand catastrophe , neither do they arise out of the main ...
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so many bloody wars , before we get half through the Orlando Furioso . But such conclusions are ineffectual ; we know that we are in the right , but we feel that the poet does not care for our reasonings . He intoxicates the imagination ...
so many bloody wars , before we get half through the Orlando Furioso . But such conclusions are ineffectual ; we know that we are in the right , but we feel that the poet does not care for our reasonings . He intoxicates the imagination ...
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... Orlando Furioso ( if we exclude the tedious love soli- loquies ) appears to us to be frequently superior to any other poem , ancient or modern , not even excepting the Iliad . Orlando having converted Brandimarte to Christianity ...
... Orlando Furioso ( if we exclude the tedious love soli- loquies ) appears to us to be frequently superior to any other poem , ancient or modern , not even excepting the Iliad . Orlando having converted Brandimarte to Christianity ...
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Página 50 - In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Página 61 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Página 54 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent yc shall all likewise perish.
Página 59 - If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men ; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
Página 131 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Página 61 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Página 360 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Página 397 - To the pleasures which Mirth can afford, The revel, the laugh, and the jeer ? Ah ! here is a plentiful board ! But the guests are all mute as their pitiful cheer, And none but the worm is a reveller here.
Página 360 - The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
Página 360 - To subsist in lasting monuments, to live in their productions, to exist in their names and predicament of chimeras, was large satisfaction unto old expectations, and made one part of their Elysiums. But all this is nothing in the metaphysics of true belief.