 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1818 - 596 pàgines
...but this work introduced him to notice before the publication of his poem, and those whose cause he had advocated, continued his friends to the last moments...give an air of reality to his 375 classical fables, toy applying them to the practices and principles of his own times. Thus it 4s that his Cupid and Hymen... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1818 - 396 pàgines
...Italians, who still think it the only fabulous system whose images combine the truth of real naturo with the charms of ideal grace. But even in this department...author contrived to give an air of reality to his classical fables, by applying them to the practices and principles of his own times. Thus it is that... | |
 | George William David Evans - 1835 - 622 pàgines
...the embroidered suits of his contemporaries, whom it was necessary to amuse in order to instruct. " With this mixture of romance, Parini also recurred...art, which an Englishman would abandon as hopeless, he contrives to give an air of reality to his classical fables, by applying them to the practices and... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1859 - 394 pàgines
...a happy relief for the silken barons, the palaces, and the embroidered suits of his contemporaries, whom it was necessary to amuse in order to instruct....author contrived to give an air of reality to his classical fables, by applying them to the practices and principles of his own times. Thus it is that... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1859 - 428 pàgines
...formed a new and national school of poetic fiction. With this mixture of romance Parini also recurved to the characters and allegories of the old mythology,...author contrived to give an air of reality to his classical fables, by applying them to the practices and principles of his own times. Thus it is that... | |
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The ruins of dungeons and towers neglected by the heirs of those who raised them, enabled the poet to employ his fancy in restoring them to their ancient splendour, and he thus threw in those sombre shades and colourings which the Germans afterwards appropriated... 