The Romance of Biography: Or, Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age; a Series of Anecdotes Intended to Illustrate the Influence which Female Beauty and Virtue Have Exercised Over the Characters and Writings of Men of Genius, Volym 1Saunders and Otley, 1837 |
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... memory is linked with the brightest monuments of human genius ? While many a high - born dame , who once moved , goddess - like , upon the earth , and bestowed kingdoms with her hand , lives a mere name in some musty chronicle . Though ...
... memory is linked with the brightest monuments of human genius ? While many a high - born dame , who once moved , goddess - like , upon the earth , and bestowed kingdoms with her hand , lives a mere name in some musty chronicle . Though ...
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... memory , which throw a strong interest around their personal adventures , and the women they celebrated . The tenderness of feeling and delicacy of ex- pression in some of these old Provençal poets , are the more touching , when we ...
... memory , which throw a strong interest around their personal adventures , and the women they celebrated . The tenderness of feeling and delicacy of ex- pression in some of these old Provençal poets , are the more touching , when we ...
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... memory of both . The Countess de Die was one of the ten ladies who formed the Court of Love , held at Pierrefeu , ( about 1194 ) and in which Estifanie de Baux presided . These Courts of Love , and the scenes they gave THE TROUBADOURS . 47.
... memory of both . The Countess de Die was one of the ten ladies who formed the Court of Love , held at Pierrefeu , ( about 1194 ) and in which Estifanie de Baux presided . These Courts of Love , and the scenes they gave THE TROUBADOURS . 47.
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... memory of this beautiful and far- famed being once believe these interpretations , and all the peculiar and graceful charm which now hangs round her intercourse with Petrarch vanishes , the reverential delicacy of the poet's homage ...
... memory of this beautiful and far- famed being once believe these interpretations , and all the peculiar and graceful charm which now hangs round her intercourse with Petrarch vanishes , the reverential delicacy of the poet's homage ...
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... sullen stupor , and indelibly impressed my imagination and my memory ; and one of these was the cele- brated copy of Virgil , which had been the fa- VOL . I. H vourite companion and constant study of Pe- trarch , containing LAURA . 97.
... sullen stupor , and indelibly impressed my imagination and my memory ; and one of these was the cele- brated copy of Virgil , which had been the fa- VOL . I. H vourite companion and constant study of Pe- trarch , containing LAURA . 97.
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The Romance of Biography: Or, Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated ..., Volym 1 Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1837 |
The Romance of Biography: Or, Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated ..., Volym 1 Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1837 |
The Romance of Biography: Or, Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated ..., Volym 1 Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1837 |
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Sida 251 - means, which public manners breeds; Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdu'd To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. Pity me then, and wish I were renew'd. The last I
Sida 341 - All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded; wisdom, in discourse with her, Loses discountenanc'd, and like folly shows; Authority and reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally; and to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat, Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic plac'd.
Sida 247 - a picture, rather than the picture itself. The forward violet thus did I chide : Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from my Love's breath ? The purple pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells, In my Love's veins thou hast too grossly dy'd. The lily I condemned for thy hand,
Sida 17 - If lusty Love should go in quest of beauty, Where should he find it fairer than in Blanche ? If zealous Love should go in search of virtue, Where should he find it purer than in Blanche? If Love, ambitious, sought a match of birth, Whose veins bound richer blood than Lady Blanche
Sida 251 - are undoubtedly addressed to Lord Southampton. O, for my sake, do you with fortune chide The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide, Than publick means, which
Sida 132 - di loco ove tornar disio : Amor mi mosse che mi fa parlare. INFERNO, c. 2. " I who now bid thee on this errand forth Am Beatrice ; from a place I come Revisited with joy; love brought me thence, Who prompts my speech.
Sida 238 - seems more fair, The more they on it stare. But her sad eyes, still fastened on the ground, Are governed with a goodly modesty That suffers not a look to glance away, Which may let in a little thought unsound.
Sida 198 - passeth more The best of yours, I dare well sayne, Then doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night. And thereto hath a truth as just, As had Penelope the fair: For what she sayeth you may it trust. As it by writing sealed were ; And virtues hath she many moe,
Sida 238 - modesty That suffers not a look to glance away, Which may let in a little thought unsound. Why blush ye, love ! to give to me your hand The pledge of all our band! Sing! ye sweet angels ! Hallelujah sing