Italy: A Poem, in Six Parts; With Historical and Classical Notes (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Italy: A Poem, in Six Parts; With Historical and Classical Notes

I must aver with the like truth, however, that I did not visit Italy with the slightest design of writing a Poem. It was among the Statues and Paintings Of the Tribune, at Florence, that I first wrote down the im pressions Of the hour; until I found, when at Rome and Naples, that the habit had entailed its necessity the slender thread, or, rather, rivulet of Poetry, which, at first, had drawn me on, deepened and widened into a stream, to which I, insensibly, devoted every thought and feeling.

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