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Page 354 - Than kings or pontiffs ; when, such reverence The poet drew among the woods and wilds, A voice was heard, that never bade to spare, ** Crying aloud, " Hence to the distant hills ! TASSO approaches ; he, whose song beguiles The day of half its hours ; whose sorcery Dazzles the sense, turning our forest-glades To lists that blaze with gorgeous armory, Our mountain-caves to regal palaces. Hence, nor descend till he and his are gone. Let him fear nothing.
Page 356 - Italy is crushed, but her heart still beats with a love of liberty, virtue, and glory; she is chained and covered with blood, but she still knows her strength and her future destiny; she is insulted by those for whom she has opened the way to every improvement; but she feels that she is formed to take the lead again; and Europe will know no repose till the nation which in the dark ages lighted the torch of civilization with that of liberty shall be enabled to enjoy the light which she created.
Page 338 - Oh, Sir! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.
Page 326 - While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Page 354 - And where are they? and where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now — The heroic bosom beats no more!
Page 356 - Italy is crushed; but her heart still beats with the love of liberty, virtue, and glory ; she is chained and covered with blood, but she still knows her strength and her future destiny ; — she is insulted by those for whom she has opened the way to every...
Page 329 - Ipsa quoque assiduo labuntur tempora motu, Non secus ac flumen. Neque enim consistere flumen, Nee levis hora potest : sed ut unda impellitur unda, Urgeturque prior veniente, urgetque priorem ; Tempora sic fugiunt pariter, pariterque sequuntur : Et nova sunt semper : nam quod fuit ante, relictum est, Fitque, quod baud fuerat, momentaque cuncta novantur.
Page 327 - IN the progress of literature, it would almost seem a fixed law that an age of vigorous original writing, and an age of imitation and repetition, should regularly follow each other.
Page 347 - And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit's! my slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the east: still govern thou my song, Urania...
Page 360 - Herein consists the immortality of principles, which, once born to light, can not, by any earthly power, be deprived of their action, until they have produced all the ultimate consequences resulting from their single and combined application. No intolerance, no persecution, no martyrdom, can prevent their promulgation; and they seem to acquire even an additional momentum from every obstacle they meet in their progress.