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... Anto . ( Holding up the crown . ) Wilt thou deny me the rare pleasure , Tasso , Prin . Without a word to tell thee what I think ? Tasso . The precious burden from that dearest hand My head , though weak , shall not decline . Leon ...
... Anto . ( Holding up the crown . ) Wilt thou deny me the rare pleasure , Tasso , Prin . Without a word to tell thee what I think ? Tasso . The precious burden from that dearest hand My head , though weak , shall not decline . Leon ...
Page 375
... Anto . Anto . Leon . Anto . Tasso . Prin . Anto . Alph . Anto . " Prin . I joy to hear thee talk in such bright spirits . [ Enter a page , who gives a letter to Alruonso . Antonio ! In a happy hour he comes . Admit him . SCENE IV . The ...
... Anto . Anto . Leon . Anto . Tasso . Prin . Anto . Alph . Anto . " Prin . I joy to hear thee talk in such bright spirits . [ Enter a page , who gives a letter to Alruonso . Antonio ! In a happy hour he comes . Admit him . SCENE IV . The ...
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... Anto . I saw with wonder as I entered . Leon . Thou cúnst not tease me now . Tasso . Couldst thou Alph . I owe thee something Since many days . Anto . Leon . I now am in thy debt , But see my sense of undeserved applause ! I knew long ...
... Anto . I saw with wonder as I entered . Leon . Thou cúnst not tease me now . Tasso . Couldst thou Alph . I owe thee something Since many days . Anto . Leon . I now am in thy debt , But see my sense of undeserved applause ! I knew long ...
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Margaret Fuller Arthur Buckminster Fuller. Tasso . Prin . Tasso . Anto Tasso Anto . Tasso . Anto . Tasso . I do not wish to go , nor shall , unless My friends disturb my home by vain dissensions . O , teach me but what I shall do for ...
Margaret Fuller Arthur Buckminster Fuller. Tasso . Prin . Tasso . Anto Tasso Anto . Tasso . Anto . Tasso . I do not wish to go , nor shall , unless My friends disturb my home by vain dissensions . O , teach me but what I shall do for ...
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... Anto . Tasso . Be lonely , sad , or weak . Thou wilt be with me . Anto . Had I a squadron of the noblest men To help me do thy bidding , some great deed Should justify the boldness of a tongue Which dared to ask her grace ! I meant it ...
... Anto . Tasso . Be lonely , sad , or weak . Thou wilt be with me . Anto . Had I a squadron of the noblest men To help me do thy bidding , some great deed Should justify the boldness of a tongue Which dared to ask her grace ! I meant it ...
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admiration Alph Anto Antonio artist beauty Beethoven better brother character charm clavichord critic deep delight divine drama earth expression eyes fair faith fancy feel felt flowers genius gifts give Goethe grace Handel happy harpsichord Haydn hear heart heaven honour hope hour human intellectual John Sebastian Leon Leonora less light live look Lord Madame Madame de Staël Madame Récamier Madame Swetchine melody mind Mozart muse nature never noble o'er PAPERS ON LITERATURE Paracelsus passion perfect PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON Philip Van Artevelde picture play pleasure poems poet poetic poetry present prince princess scene seek seems Senesino Sir James Mackintosh song soul speak spirit Strafford sweet sympathy Tasso taste tender thee thine things thou art thought tion tone TORQUATO TASSO true truth verse wish words Wordsworth worthy write youth
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Page 81 - Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear, Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there. All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.
Page 103 - The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers.
Page 85 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a Tropic sky, Might well be dangerous food For him, a Youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of Heaven, And such impetuous blood.
Page 255 - Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim; And...
Page 81 - Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, singing hymns unbidden till the world is wrought to sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not.
Page 33 - Veritate, in my hand, and, kneeling on my knees, devoutly said these words: — ' ' O thou eternal God, Author of the light which now shines upon me, and Giver of all inward illuminations, I do beseech Thee, of Thy infinite goodness, to pardon a greater request than a sinner ought to make ; I am not satisfied enough whether I shall publish this book, De Veritate; if it be for Thy glory, I beseech Thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Page 335 - Walked of yore the Master-Singers, chanting rude poetic strains. From remote and sunless suburbs came they to the friendly guild, Building nests in Fame's great temple, as in spouts the swallows build.
Page 97 - All this long eve, so balmy and serene, Have I been gazing on the western sky, And its peculiar tint of yellow green : And still I gaze — and with how blank an eye...
Page 83 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear: If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.
Page 167 - ... service with unceasing care, The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought but what thy happiness could spare. Speak — though this soft warm heart, once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary cold Than a forsaken bird's-nest filled with snow 'Mid its own bush of leafless eglantine — Speak, that my torturing doubts their end may know ! TO BR HAYDON, ON SEEING HIS PICTURE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE ON THE ISLAND OF ST.