The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 115
duals, should receive thesmallest prejudice by delay, passed successive nights instudy. It was in vain that his friends remonstrated andurged him to regard his health, Unmindful of theirsolicitations, he replied, Regularity is the compass ofreligious orders—but the wants of the people are theguide… … Short DANTE. Dante Alighieri was the first poet of any cele-brity that appeared in modern Italy, after the sera of ig*norance and barbarism* If we refleet on the epoch inwhich he wrote, and on the dissentions that distractedhis country, in which he took uncommon interest, weshall not be surprized…
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