Query: Who was this "ingenious writer?"

While on the subject of _Christabel_, I may note a parallelism in reference

to a line in Part I.:

"Her face, oh call it fair, not pale!"

"E smarrisce il bel _volto in un colore,_

_Che non è pallidezza, ma candore_."

_Tasso_, _G. Lib._ c. ii. st. 26.