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... seem to insinuate that they are or ought to be universal . I know I am open to criticism and contradiction on a thousand points ; but I have adhered strictly to what appeared to me the truth , and examined conscientiously all the ...
... seem to insinuate that they are or ought to be universal . I know I am open to criticism and contradiction on a thousand points ; but I have adhered strictly to what appeared to me the truth , and examined conscientiously all the ...
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... seems to have possessed any mental accomplishments . The poet praises , incidentally , her talents for music and poetry ; but not as if they added to her charms or enhanced her value in his estimation . The Lesbiat of Catullus , I need ...
... seems to have possessed any mental accomplishments . The poet praises , incidentally , her talents for music and poetry ; but not as if they added to her charms or enhanced her value in his estimation . The Lesbiat of Catullus , I need ...
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... seems to have in- spired one ennobling or generous sentiment , nor to have lifted them for one moment above the grossest selfishness . They had no scruple in exhibiting their mistresses to our eyes , as doubtless they appeared in their ...
... seems to have in- spired one ennobling or generous sentiment , nor to have lifted them for one moment above the grossest selfishness . They had no scruple in exhibiting their mistresses to our eyes , as doubtless they appeared in their ...
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... seems to have had a taste for magnificence and pleasure ; and the poet , in order to find favour in her eyes , expends his patri- mony in rich apparel , banquets , and joustes in her honour . The lady , however , continues inexorable ...
... seems to have had a taste for magnificence and pleasure ; and the poet , in order to find favour in her eyes , expends his patri- mony in rich apparel , banquets , and joustes in her honour . The lady , however , continues inexorable ...
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... seem to have inherited from their mother . Sordello of Mantua , whose name is familiar to all the readers of Dante , as occurring in one of the finest pas- sages of this great poem , * was an Italian , but like all the best poets of his ...
... seem to have inherited from their mother . Sordello of Mantua , whose name is familiar to all the readers of Dante , as occurring in one of the finest pas- sages of this great poem , * was an Italian , but like all the best poets of his ...
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Page 135 - And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath ; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.
Page 183 - O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know • Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best: All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd, and like Folly shows...
Page 294 - Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met— or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 137 - ... No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 189 - Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force though pale and faint.
Page 194 - ASK me no more whither do stray The golden atoms of the day, For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair. Ask me no more...
Page 151 - At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 312 - tis his fancy to run ; At night he reclines on his Thetis's breast. So when I am wearied with wandering all day ; To thee, my delight, in the evening I come : No matter what beauties I saw in my way : They were but my visits, but thou art my home.
Page 137 - ... this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe. O, if, I say, you look upon this verse When I perhaps compounded am with clay, Do not so much as my poor name rehearse, But let your love even with my life decay, Lest the wise world should look into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone.
Page 211 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal.