The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa, Volume 2

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H. Colburn, 1824
 

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Página 218 - HARRY, whose tuneful and well-measured song First taught our English music how to span Words with just note and accent, not to scan With Midas' ears, committing short and long, Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, With praise enough for Envy to look wan : To after age thou shalt be writ the man That with smooth air couldst humour best our tongue.
Página 22 - Heaven, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from ourselves, and from our own Live to ourselves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easy yoke Of servile pomp.
Página 203 - Rosa," and then to resign his own ; Oliva to his monastery, to compose the epitaph which is still read on the tomb of his friend ; and Carlo Rossi to select from his gallery such works of his own beloved painter, as might best adorn the walls of that chapel now exclusively consecrated to his memory. On the following night the remains of Salvator Rosa were deposited, with all the awful forms of the Roman church, in a grave opened expressly in the beautiful vestibule of Santa Maria degli Angioli alle...
Página 200 - was the emphatic reply. While writhing with pain, the sufferer, after a moment, added, ' To judge by what I now endure, the hand of death grasps me sharply.' " In the restlessness of pain, he now threw himself on the edge of the bed, and placed his head on the bosom of Lucrezia, who sat supporting and weeping over him. His afflicted son and friend took their station at the other side of his couch, and stood watching the issue of these sudden and frightful spasms in mournful silence. At that moment...
Página 201 - Trinita, for the holy Viaticum. While life was still fluttering at the heart of Salvator, the officiating priest of the day arrived, bearing with him the holy apparatus of the last mysterious ceremony of the church. The shoulders of Salvator were laid bare, and anointed with the consecrated oil ; some prayed fervently, others wept, and all even still hoped ; but the taper which the Doctor Catanni held to the lips of Salvator, while the Viaticum was administered, burned brightly and steadily ! Life's...
Página 212 - ... Rome while the impressions Salvator had made in its circles were still fresh,) — " For the rest, though Salvator was by temperament both sensual and sarcastic, those faults were compensated by virtues, which made them the more to be lamented, if not to be excused. For he was charitable, alms-giving, and generous ; gracious and courteous ; a decided enemy to falsehood and fiction, greedy of glory, eminent in all the professions to which he addicted himself, yet still prizing his talent more...
Página 212 - ... great and unrivalled original. While the public character, the person, manner, and exterior modes of Salvator Rosa, such as he appeared in what is called the world, have been treated with amplitude by Passeri, others of his biographers have entered more deeply into the domestic qualities, the temperament, and daily habits of the private individual : and the home character of genius is always interesting. A thousand individual traits in the various biographical details, and, above all, in the...
Página 112 - Pincio was then, as now, the fashionable passeggio, or lounge, of Rome ; but, at a period when every nation, class, and profession still preserved its characteristic costume, the Roman Mall exhibited many such fantastic groupings as, in modern times, might furnish the genius of masquerade with models equally striking and picturesque. Among the strolling parties of monks and friars, cardinals and prelates, Roman princesses and English peers, Spanish grandees and French cavaliers, which then crowded...
Página 303 - He begins another letter, of a later date, on his being employed to paint the altar of San Giovanni de' Fiorentini, thus gaily : — " Senate le campane — Ring out the chimes ! At last, after thirty years' existence in Rome, of hopes blasted and complaints reiterated against men and gods, the occasion is accorded me for giving one altar-piece to the public.

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