DANTE PETRARCH BOCCACCIO LORENZO DE' MEDICI, &c. BOJARDO BERNI ARIOSTO MACHIAVELLI ----"'Tis the doom Of spirits of my order to be rack'd In life; to wear their hearts out, and consume Their days in endless strife, and die alone: --Then future thousands crowd around their tomb, And pilgrims come from climes where they have known The name of Him,--who now is but a name; And wasting homage o'er the sullen stone, Spread his, by him unheard, unheeded, fame."…
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