Ci git, dont l'esprit fût si beau,
Sannazar, ce poete habile,
Qui par ses vers divins approche de Virgile,
Plus encore que par son tombeau.
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The two reprehensible lines in Pope's Eloisa,
Not Cæsar's empress would I deign to prove;
No—make me mistress to the man I love
are to be found in the original letters of Eloisa—at least the
thought.
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Mercier, in “L'an deux mille quatre cents quarante” seriously
maintains the doctrines of the Metempsychosis, and J. D'Israeli says
there is no system so simple, and so little repugnant to the
understanding.
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One of the best epigrams affixed to the statue of Pasquin was the
following upon Paul III,
Ut canerent data multa olim sunt vatibus æra
Ut taceam quantum tu mihi, Paule, dabis?
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Milton in Paradise Lost, has this passage,
——when the _scourge_
Inexorably, and the _torturing hour_
Call us to penance.