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Pagina 44 - By our own spirits are we deified: We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
Pagina 172 - Whatever may have been the evidence for our author's madness when he was consigned to an asylum, nothing can be clearer than his sanity when he wrote this book ; it is bright, calm, and to the point."— SPECTATOR.
Pagina 62 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Pagina 158 - The Lusiad | of | Luis de Camoens | Books I. to V. | Translated | by Edward Quillinan. | With Notes | by John Adamson | KTS and K..C.
Pagina 128 - E aqueles que por obras valerosas Se vão da lei da Morte libertando — Cantando espalharei por toda parte, Se a tanto me ajudar o engenho e arte.
Pagina 135 - The | Lusiad, | or, | Portugals | Historicall Poem : | written | In the Portingall Language | by | Luis de Camoens ; | and | Now newly put into English | by | Richard Fanshaw, Esq.
Pagina 137 - I shall do well :' and taking him in his arms, said, ' Thou hast ever been an honest man, and I hope God will bless thee, and make thee a happy servant to my son, whom I have charged in my letter to continue his love, and trust to you ;' adding, ' I do promise you that if ever I am restored to my dignity I will bountifully reward you both for your service and sufferings.
Pagina 146 - Sae sweet his voice, sae smooth his tongue; His breath's like caller air; His very fit has music in't, As he comes up the stair. And will I see his face again? And will I hear him speak? I'm downright dizzy wi' the thought: In troth I'm like to greet.
Pagina 150 - As a translator, Mickle deserves the severest blame. His liberty is licentious : at his best he is splendide mendax. He is not satisfied with paraphrase and omissions : he rejoices in impertinent intrusions and interpretations ; and he evidently holds, with consummate self-sufficiency, that he is improving upon Camoens. The seventeen stanzas which begin Canto ix. are eked out to more than double — 300 for 136 lines. He falsifies history, topography, onomatology,2 everything. 1 The idea is well...
Pagina 362 - St. John, habited in priest's garments, descends the steps of an altar into an open grave, in which he lays himself down, not in death, but in sleep, until the coming of Christ ; " being reserved alive with Enoch and Elijah (who also knew not death), to preach against the Antichrist in the last days.