Semi Serious Observations of An Italian Exile During His Residence in England
Semi Serious Observations of An Italian Exile During His Residence in England
Giuseppe Pecchio
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Those on the other hand, who admire the heroes of Homer and the Greek tragedies, who now weep like children, now fight like Gods, will find these bursts of nature full of truth, and think him perhaps more interesting, who complains indeed amid the throes of grief, but still tri- umphantly pursues the path of duty. The first time I saw at Madrid the silver-tongued G, he was dressed in a green camlet cloak, a straw hat, a pair of dust coloured shoes, and I know not what else. He seemed as if he h...ad copied the toilette of a parrot. I went to the hall of the cortes to hear him, and he appeared to me a second Cicero. He speaks extemporaneously with the same elegance and facility with which a member of the Spanish academy would write. I met him a second time, and examined him 82 THE ITALIAN EXILE more narrowly. I found him a little, lean, short-sighted man, unsteady on his legs, a very devil-on-two-stickg. I went that evening to hear him from the people's gal- lery, and he appeared to me a giant that with the thunder of his eloquence might have shaken Olympus.
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