How shall we describe the treatment of the words "And their cry came up unto the Lord" in the first chorus of Israel in Egypt, except as the treatment of a phrase of chorale or canto fermo?
There is really nothing in these art-forms which is not continuous with the universal practice of writing counterpoint on a canto fermo.
I do not think that any of your correspondents have quoted the halting lines with which Byron mars the pathos of the Rousseau-like letter of Donna Julia (Don Juan, canto I.
In the last canto of the poem her super-eminence and incomparable excellence are sung "with a sweetness of expression, a depth of philosophy and a tenderness of feeling that have never been surpassed in human language.
In Canto VIII of the Inferno Dante with his guide, Virgil, enters a bark on the Styx and sails across the broad marsh.
Jacopo tra Fossi on the Canto degli Alberti, where it stands at the present day on the high-altar.
On the Canto degli Albergotti, below the school and university of the Commune, there is a window of considerable beauty constructed after his design; and there are two of them in the house of Ser Bernardino Serragli in the Pelliceria.
It would be endless to go through the poem for examples of this excess of minute description; we shall merely glance at the First Canto as a specimen.
CANTO XXIV Our journey was not slacken'd by our talk, Nor yet our talk by journeying.
CANTO XXIII On the green leaf mine eyes were fix'd, like his Who throws away his days in idle chase Of the diminutive, when thus I heard The more than father warn me: "Son!
CANTO XX Ill strives the will, 'gainst will more wise that strives His pleasure therefore to mine own preferr'd, I drew the sponge yet thirsty from the wave.
CANTO XXV It was an hour, when he who climbs, had need To walk uncrippled: for the sun had now To Taurus the meridian circle left, And to the Scorpion left the night.
The canto will "adorn" the mind on which it is impressed for a certain time, without leaving any lasting trace upon it.
Canto that the gate of Purgatory proper is unfolded to the poet.
With the eleventh canto a new hero, Ahti, or Lemminkainen, and a new cycle of adventures, is abruptly introduced.
With the sixteenth canto we return to Wainamoinen, who, like all epic heroes, visits the place of the dead, Tuonela.
Inferno: Canto XVIII There is a place in Hell called Malebolge, Wholly of stone and of an iron colour, As is the circle that around it turns.
Inferno: Canto XXIX The many people and the divers wounds These eyes of mine had so inebriated, That they were wishful to stand still and weep; But said Virgilius: "What dost thou still gaze at?
Inferno: Canto XXVI Rejoice, O Florence, since thou art so great, That over sea and land thou beatest thy wings, And throughout Hell thy name is spread abroad!
Inferno: Canto III "Through me the way is to the city dolent; Through me the way is to eternal dole; Through me the way among the people lost.
Inferno: Canto XX Of a new pain behoves me to make verses And give material to the twentieth canto Of the first song, which is of the submerged.
Camoens addresses the King of Malabar as: "O nobre successor de Perimal" Canto viii, stanza 82.
In the secondcanto of Childe Harold, he tells us that he is insensible to fame and obloquy: "Ill may such contest now the spirit move, Which heeds nor keen reproof nor partial praise.
Eight or nine years before the date which Mr. Croker has assigned for Sir William's death, Sir Walter Scott lamented that event in the introduction to the fourth canto of Marmion.
Yet in the fourth canto of Childe Harold, he places Tasso, a writer not merely inferior to them, but of quite a different order of mind, on at least a footing of equality with them.
The following extracts are from a poem entitled Democracy, the first canto of which was printed in New-York, in March, 1794, and at the time excited no inconsiderable share of the public attention.
The Cow-chace appeared originally in The Royal Gazette, in the following numbers: Canto I, Aug.
In the first edition of the first canto of Childe Harold, the poet adverted in a note to two political tracts--one by Major Pasley, and the other by Gould Francis Leckie, Esq.
Heber, then an under-graduate of only a few terms' standing, wrote the firstcanto the same evening, and the intrinsic merit of the poem will recommend it to most readers.
Footnote 58: The incidents of the birth of Chariclea have been copied by Tasso in the story of Clorinda, as related to her by Arsete, in the 12th canto of "Gierusalemme Liberata.
The desertion of Olimpia by Bireno, related in the tenth canto of the Orlando Furioso, has, in its incidents at least, a strong resemblance to the poem of Catullus.
CANTO X When we had passed the threshold of the gate (Which the soul's ill affection doth disuse, Making the crooked seem the straighter path), I heard its closing sound.
CANTO VII After their courteous greetings joyfully Sev'n times exchang'd, Sordello backward drew Exclaiming, "Who are ye?
CANTO XXVI While singly thus along the rim we walk'd, Oft the good master warn'd me: "Look thou well.
When this is done,--as in the examples fromCanto XV.
To enable our readers to compare the translations with the original and with one another, we will give the Italian, and then the three versions, of the latter part of the Francesca story, from Canto V.
Parsons, who, happily freeing himself from either verbal or numerical bond, in several instances compresses a canto into two or three lines less than the Italian, and the XXXI.
