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that his enjoyment In his own expression OF DIS VVe'
rather than in any favor he sought TO gain from MS a
Here IL OF his sonnets, in which he sings y"
sweety the praises his Beatrice that even this prosa
century may like TO listen TO its echo
Love saith concerning her: How chanoethu ..
That flesh. which Is OF dust should be thus purei
Then, gazing always. he makes oath = FOR sure
This IL q creature Of God till now unsho"n'
She hath that paleness of pearl tnat s III
She is q high Natures skill can soar
Beauty is tried by her comparison.
Whatever her sweet eyes are turned uPoh'
Spirits Of love do issue thence In name, ,o,, nm
Which through their eyes VINO uneh may i'' va
Pierce t 10 the hearts deep chamber every ono.
And in her smile Loves Image you may see;
Whence gaze upon her steadiasty'
Some OF the poems about Beatrice are exquisite "nat
writes about her after her death is yet more peau
than his tributes to her living charm. He says:
Not by the frost OF Winter was she driven
Away, like others; nor by summer heatsi
But through perfect geniieness, Ilsteaa
For from the lamp OF her meek lowhead
6uch an exceeding glory went up hence
That 1t woke wonder IN the Eterna oTe'
Until a sweet desire
Entered Him for that lovely excellence,
SO that lie babe her to Himself aspire pre-
Counting this weary and most evil place
Unworthy of thing 50 full OF grace
Very charming, too, some of the poems by Dantos
friends, on which have space to dwell. Some OF
them are full Of the ideal and exalted worship OF
love and women while others human. But all
belong to the school and this single book II the
best possible introduction TO the first epoch OF Italian
poetry Perhaps no other poet OF time could have
done this work of introducing 10 Dante and His
Circle" we'll Rosset since he himself il more akin
to them than TO the OF his time He was
brought up worship of Dante who the idol Of
his father before him. He is at home IN the quantness,
the subtley the frankness the romance the exataon
which mark this early Italian school, and he could not
translate their work sympathetcaly were he the
accredited "medium" through which their gentle and
romantic ghosts come back hold parley with the pe0-
pie of to-day.
Estes Laurat have just ready "The Works OF Count
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Rumords works published under the auspices Of the
American Academy of Ars and Sciences, and has been
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Prof. WinlOck Prof J. p. Cooke, jr., F. ii. Storer,
Prof. Wyman. j. B. Francis T.. c. Pickering,
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itary management of armies and public institutions
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voluntary exile from America his assistance TO the Brit
ish Ministry and afterward his service in the royal army
in America; his being knghtod by George Ill., and ap
pointed Count of the Holy Roman Empire by the Eector
of Bavaria his being raised 10 the most important posi-
tons the Government OF Bavaria aud on 10 his death
We have never done honor enough TO the memory Of
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