Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio: In which are Incorporated, Translations of His Principal Letters, Band 1G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row., 1796 - 407 Seiten |
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Seite 55 - July 1 7 1 8, but having been overturned in a chaise, the fourth day of his journey, he had the misfortune to break his leg, and was confined at an inn in the little town of Ponticaba, near Trevisa, till September. He arrived at Vienna, the 14th of that month, "safe," as he says, " if not sound and cured," after twelve days of excessive suffering on the road.
Seite 73 - But fuch the Frailty is of Human Kind, Men toil for Fame, which no Man lives to find } Long ripening under-ground this China lies ; Fame bears no Fruit, till the vain Planter dies.
Seite 56 - I find more and more every day, that I grow old, not only in body, but in mind : and that the bufinefs of writing verfes, is no longer a fit employment for me...
Seite 40 - And from the time of his arrival in that city, till his departure for Germany, they all lived under the fame roof, and conftituted one family. The Romanina, as more rich and accuflomed to the manage-;.
Seite 41 - Ricono/i-iuta, fet by the fame compofer, 1729; but though both thefe dramas were received in the moft favorable manner, and the praifes beftowed upon the poet were unbounded, his fortune was not greatly improved by their fuccefs. Poetry has more frequently enriched the bookfeller, than the author, in every country ; but at Rome, it is a drug of lefs value, even to the bookfeller, than elfewhere ; and . Metaftafio's mufe, however chafte, was but little better treated for hot . being meretricious.
Seite 45 - Zeno, who was himfelf at this time laureate to the emperor Charles VI. a prince, who had long fupported his Lyric Theatre with the greateft magnificence. Zeno had enjoyed his office in this court, from the year 1718, where his chief employment...
Seite 54 - Letterati d'ltalia," of which he published thirty volumes between the years 1710and 1719. His first musical drama, " L'Inganni Felici," was performed at Venice in 1695, and between that time and his quitting Vienna, whither he was invited by the emperor Charles VI. in 1718, he produced forty-six operas, and seventeen oratorios, besides eighteen dramas, which he wrote jointly with Pariati. His dramatic works were collected and published at Venice in 1744, in 10 vols.
Seite 41 - ... was natural, and cataftrophe happy, it was inftantly attacked by the fatirical genius of the Romans, and the performance fufpended. The frivolous fcenes, and feeble poetry to which they had been long accuftomed, had corrupted the tafte of the Roman public in general ; and except a few learned men, lefs invidious than the reft, who, if they knew of no modern Cato, had read, at leaft, about the ancient, this piece was at firft very coldly , 1796. received ; though afterwards, when their minds and...
Seite 56 - Parnaflus, which though they furnifhed ufeful productions, were not of a foil fufficiently rich to generate fuch gay, delicate, and beautiful flowers, as are requifite to embellifh...
Seite 35 - ... and finger. It is eafy to imagine with what zeal the Abate went to work, in order to gratify her wifh.