Goethe's Torquato TassoD.C. Heath & Company, 1907 - 181 Seiten |
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Seite 166 - With steed and ship their ravish'd spoils to seize, And for his theft the savage Turk requite) That they to thee should yield, in wisdom's right, The rule by land, or, if it have more charms, Of the high seas ; meanwhile, let it delight To hear our verse ring with divine alarms ; Rival of Godfrey, hear, and hearing, grasp thine...
Seite 151 - ... more distant relations. It is true that he did raise two of his nephews to the cardinalate (and Pius V. had done as much), but when a third, encouraged by their promotion, came to court with hope of equal fortune, he was refused an audience, and commanded to quit Rome within two days. The brother of Gregory had left his home, and was on the road to see and enjoy the honour that had visited his family, but arrived at Orvieto, he was met by a papal messenger, who desired him to return. Tears rose...
Seite 146 - ... youth, and the other forbidding him ; for the one is a lover of the body and hungers after beauty like ripe fruit, and would fain satisfy himself without any regard to the character of the beloved ; the other holds the desire of the body to be a secondary matter, and, looking rather than loving...
Seite 162 - Serassi, p. 235, quotes some verses in which the poet Guarini makes this very charge against Tasso, the ladies concerned being, however, the Countess of Scandiano and Lucretia Bendidio. The verses are : " Di due fiamme si vanta, e stringe e spezza Più volte un nodo ', e con quest* arti piega (Chi 'i crederebbe !) a suo favore i dei.
Seite 150 - ... he was involved in disputes interminable; some regarded the affair of Aquileja, some the visitation of their churches, and various other points. The ambassadors can find no words to describe the heat with which he spoke of these matters, the acerbity that he displayed on their being even alluded to. With Tuscany and Naples affairs were not more peaceably arranged, nor did Ferrara find greater favour. Parma had but lately lost large sums of money in legal disputes with the pontiff. It thus happened...
Seite 150 - ... disorders recommenced. That these evils should thus become incurable, is attributable to a particular circumstance that must be related. Pope Gregory XIII., who is so frequently described as good-natured to excess, had yet asserted his ecclesiastical as well as secular rights with extremity of rigour,* and in doing this he regarded no man's interest or feelings. He spared neither the emperor nor the king of Spain, and to his more immediate neighbours he shewed as little deference. With Venice...
Seite xxx - As you will take everything to yourself that Tasso says, I have already written so much to you to-day that I can neither add anything to it nor improve upon it." On the following day: "I shall tell thee nothing of myself, nor of the morning. While writing at Tasso I have been directly worshipping thee.
Seite 158 - ... of Pindar, that a swarm of bees settled upon his lips, and fed him with honey, when he was left exposed upon the highway. It probably had some foundation in fact, whatever may be thought of the implied augury of the special favour of the gods which is said to have been drawn from it at the time. In any case, the picture of the strayed child, sleeping unconscious of its danger...
Seite xvi - that I am sitting on my nag and riding out my routine beat, suddenly the mare beneath me will assume a majestic form and an unconquerable mettle, and take wings to herself and run away with me." t Again he writes in his diary, in April, 1780: "I gain daily in insight and in aptitude for active life ; but I feel like a bird that has got entangled in a snare, I have v/ings, but cannot use them.
Seite xviii - But here he found a woman who was socially above him, who knew much that he had yet to learn, who was capable of entering fully into all his best thoughts, and who, withal, seemed ready to help him with sympathy and counsel. So it was that almost from the...