The Cid in Spain, Orlando in Italy, and Arthur in England, are similar examples of national ideals put forth by poets and romance writers as embodiments of a certain half-mythic age of chivalry, when personal valor, prudence, generosity, and high feeling gave the warrior an admitted preeminence among his fellows.

" As mad as Orlando for his Angelica, or Hercules for his Hylas, "At ille ruebat quo pedes ducebant, furibundus, Nam illi saevus Deus intus jecur laniabat.

I have not followed Orlando into his feats of ultra-supernatural strength.

It does not appear however that Ganimed made any progress in curing Orlando of his love for Rosalind.

This resuscitation of the Helen of antiquity, under a more seducing form, was an invention of Boiardo's; so was the subjection of Charles's hero Orlando to the passion of love; so, besides the heroine and her name, was that of other interesting characters with beautiful names, which afterwards figured in Ariosto.

Orlando rejoiced to see him so penitent, and readily forgave him: they embraced each other, and from that hour Oliver loved Orlando with a true brotherly affection, though he had come to the forest bent on his destruction.

Each tied up his horse, and reclined himself on the grass, not far from one another, just as if they had been friends,Orlando by the fountain, Agrican beneath a pine.

He had become blind with his own blood, and smitten Orlando without knowing him, who had never received such a blow in his life.

This declaration was given to the press late in the afternoon of April 23, and a French newspaper containing it was handed, it was said, to Signor Orlando at the President's residence where the Council of Four were assembled.

Però che Orlando tanto stretto il tiene, Che star con seco a fronte gli conviene.

Tasso's enchantress Armida is a variation of the Angelica of the same poet, combined with Ariosto's Alcina; but her passionate voluptuousness makes her quite a new character in regard to the one; and she is as different from the painted hag of the Orlando as youth, beauty, and patriotic intention can make her.