To Thomas Moore. Written the evening before his visit to Mr. Leigh Hunt in Horsemonger-Lane Gaol, May 19, 1813 From the Portuguese. "Tu mi Chamas " The Devil's Drive; an unfinished Rhapsody Windsor Poetics. Lines composed on the occasion of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent being seen standing Stanzas for Music. "I speak not," &c. 273 275 Ode from the French. "We do not curse thee, Waterloo" From the French. "Must thou go, my glorious Chief?" On the Star of "the Legion of Honour." From the French Napoleon's Farewell. From the French Stanzas for Music. "Bright be the Place of thy Soul," &c. ADVERTISEMENT. AT Ferrara, in the Library, are preserved the original MSS. of Tasso's Gierusalemme and of Guarini's Pastor Fido, with letters of Tasso, one from Titian to Ariosto, and the inkstand and chair, the tomb and the house, of the latter. But, as misfortune has a greater interest for posterity, and little or none for the cotemporary, the cell where Tasso was confined in the hospital of St. Anna attracts a more fixed attention than the residence or the monument of Ariosto--at least it had this effect on me. There are two inscriptions, one on the outer gate, the second over the cell itself, inviting, unnecessarily, the wonder and the indignation of the spectator. Ferrara is much decayed and depopulated: the castle still exists entire; and I saw the court where Parisina and Hugo were beheaded, according to the annal of Gibbon. |