“She fair, he full of bashfulness and truth,
Loved much, hoped little, and desired nought.”
Canto II, stanza 16 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Original
Ei che modesto è sì, com'essa è bella, Brama assai, poco spera, e nulla chiede.
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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Torquato Tasso 94
Italian poet 1544–1595Related quotes
I stood tip-toe upon a little Hill; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813)
The London Literary Gazette (28th March 1835)
Translations, From the German
“Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.”
Rien n'est beau que le vrai : le vrai seul est aimable.
Epistle 9
The First Revelation, Chapter 5
Context: It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought all-thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade. For this is the cause why we be not all in ease of heart and soul: that we seek here rest in those things that are so little, wherein is no rest, and know not our God that is All-mighty, All-wise, All-good. For He is the Very Rest. God willeth to be known, and it pleaseth Him that we rest in Him; for all that is beneath Him sufficeth not us. And this is the cause why that no soul is rested till it is made nought as to all things that are made. When it is willingly made nought, for love, to have Him that is all, then is it able to receive spiritual rest.
“Who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.”
1 Timothy 2:4 (as quoted in World English Bible http://biblehub.com/web/1_timothy/2.htm)
First Epistle to Timothy
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