Ariosto tells a pretty story of a fairy, who, by some mysterious law of her nature, was condemned to appear, at certain seasons, in the form of a foul and poisonous snake. Those who injured her during the period of her disguise, were forever excluded... Parliamentary Papers - Page 493by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1878Full view - About this book
| Hippolyte Taine - 1874 - 568 pages
...expands into magnificent comparisons, worthy by their amplitude of being introduced into an epic: ' Ariosto tells a pretty story of a fairy, who, by some...of her nature, was condemned to appear at certain seasous in the form of a foul and poisonous snake. Those who injured her during the period of her disguise... | |
| Francis Nathan Peloubet - 1880 - 274 pages
...Christ in the persons of his poor. — Macaulay in his essay on Milton (p. 43) says, " Ariosto tells a story of a fairy, who, by some mysterious law of her...to appear at certain seasons in the form of a foul, poisonous snake. Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were forever excluded from... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...there would never be a good house or a good government in the world. LORD MACAULAY : Milton, Aug. 1825. Ariosto tells a pretty story of a fairy, who, by some...injured her during the period of her disguise were forever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those who, in spile... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1876 - 462 pages
...Dramatists of the Restoration. 1 Ibid. v. 672 ; Lord Makotfs War of the Succeesion in Spain. YOL. III. 24. "Ariosto tells a pretty story of a fairy, who, by...injured her during the period of her disguise were forever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those who, in spite... | |
| Thomas Whitcombe Greene - 1876 - 340 pages
...loathsomeness to grant it (the succession) is by reason of natural suspicion against a successor. — Id. Ariosto tells a pretty story of a fairy, who by some...snake. Those who injured her during the period of her disgrace, were for ever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed ; but to those... | |
| Joel Tyler Headley - 1876 - 708 pages
...disgust and horror from her more painful and revolting aspect there. " Ariosto tells a pretty stoty of a fairy, who, by some mysterious law of her nature,...injured her during the period of her disguise, were forever excluded from participation in the blessings she bestowed. But to those who, in spite of her... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 112 pages
...miserable sophisms were to prevail, there would never be a good house or a good government in the world. Ariosto tells a pretty story of a fairy, who, by some...injured her during the period of her disguise were forever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those who, in spite... | |
| Albert Dresden Vandam - 1878 - 386 pages
...passion it portrays, which, though pure in itself, is like the fairy in that pretty story of Ariosto, condemned to appear at certain seasons in the form of a foul and poisonous snake." " I grant that you had a difficulty to contend with. Language, as modern society understands it, is... | |
| 1878 - 632 pages
...»/еГхос тгатрод ¿{ EURIPIDES. Translate into Greek : Ariosto tells a pretty story of u fairy, who by some mysterious law of her nature, was condemned to appear at c.-rtain seasons in the form of a foul and poisonous snake. Those who injured her during the period... | |
| Francis Nathan Peloubet - 1879 - 272 pages
...Christ in the persons of his poor. — Macaulay in his essay on Milton (p. 43) says, "Ariosto tells a story of a fairy, who, by some mysterious law of her...nature, was condemned to appear at certain seasons 1n the form of a foul, poisonous snake. Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were... | |
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