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awc-flruck and confounded, approaches the beloved objeft, with reve- 

 rential ieutiments, generally appropriated to the divinity, confiders love 

 as its own reward, and the mere pleafure of loving and dwelling in rapture 

 on tender fentiments, as fuperior to all the fenfual gratifications of vul- 

 gar fpirits. 



In almoft every page of Petrarch, paflages occur, which juftify th6 

 comparifon I have drawn between him and Propertius. 



Sonnet 27. 



Ma per me laflb tornano piu grave, 

 Sofpiri chi del cor profondo tragge 

 Q_uella ch'al ciel fe ne porto le chiavi. 



O noflra vita ch'e fi bclla in vifta, 

 Com perde agevolmente in una raattina, 

 Quel che'n molt' anni a gran pena s'acquifta. 



Hard fate of man, on whom the heav'ns beftow 



A drop of pleafure for a fea of woe ; 



Ah life of care, in fears, or hopes confum'd ! 



Vain hopes, that wither ere they well have bloom'd ! 



Sonnetio 17. 



Laffo il m!o loco e'n quefta ultima fchiera, 



Ch' I non fon forte ad afpettar la luce 



Di quefta donna, e non fo fare fchermi 



Di luoghi tenebrofi e d'ore tarde. 



Pero con gli occhi lagrimofi I'infermi 



Mio deftino a yederla mi conduce, 



E fo ben ch' io vo dietro a quel che m'arde. 



I a voi non piace 

 Mirar fi baffo con la mente altera. 



Canzone 3, has much refemblance to foflic of the elegies of Pro- 

 pertius. ' 



Miro 



