Letters From Lady Dacre To Sir Anthony Panizzi PDF Download

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. FOSCOLO?AT HOLKHAM?rFlBST ARTICLE?DEPARTURE From Liverpool?Brougham?Miss Turner? London University ? Botta?Lady Dacre? Orlando Innamorato?W. S. Rose?Keightley ?Moore's Verses?Correspondence With Mr. Grenville?Appointed To The British Museum. In the year 1826, Panizzi being fairly established in Liverpool, it may be concluded (and, indeed, in a letter to be presently quoted he admits as much) that he was now earning sufficient not only to satisfy his immediate wants, but to enable him to enjoy a certain degree of comparative luxury. He took up his residence at No. 93, Mount Pleasant, on an eminence overlooking the town, and celebrated in Roscoe's poem of the same name. From the numerous invitations he received, constantly dining out, it may be inferred that he moved in the best society the place afforded, and was leading a tolerably comfortable life. Far otherwise did it fare with Ugo Foscolo, his illustrious fellow-exile. For Foscolo, of whose celebrity in England, as of the reverence paid to his name by the youth of his native Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini writes so warmly, was now living in London in a state bordering on actual destitution. Stern and somewhat aggressive in temperament, says Mazzini, speaking of Foscolo, his mind nourishedand fortified by severe study, little calculated for laying new foundations, but endowed with mighty faculties for destruction, he effectually overthrew (except for those who bow down kindly before precedents-) a whole edifice of errors which barred the way to the study of Dante. In his different writings, especially in his Discorso sul Testo, etc., etc., etc., he cleared the ground for a better understanding of the ' Commedia ' and the poet. This estimate of Foscolo's character was founded entirely on r...