...Extroversion of yearning Object of desire displayed, withheld Injury to hero Apotheosis — Transfiguration For I have battled with mine agony, And made me wings...overfly The narrow circus of my dungeon wall, And pour'd my spirit over Palestine. Byron, Tasso, 1.21-23, 26 The motive of the crusades and certain persistent...

...like himself, find consolation for the buffetings of the world in his own immortal works : " I sloop not to despair ; For I have battled with mine agony,...thrall ; And revelled among men and things divine, And pour'd my spirit over Palestine, In honour of the sacred war for him, The God who was on earth, and...

...despair with which Goethe's work is closed : — " All this hath somewhat worn me, and may wear, But must be borne. I stoop not to despair, For I have...wall ; And freed the holy sepulchre from thrall ; And revell'd among men and things divine, And pour'd my spirit over Palestine, In honour of the sacred...

...his sanity, according to Byron's fiction, Tasso passed the hours in his cell composing his Liberata. For I have battled with mine agony; And made me wings...wall, And freed the Holy Sepulchre from thrall; And revell'd among men and things divine, And pour'd my spirit over Palestine, In honour of the sacred...

...he had been here to do so." From Macmillan's Magazine. TORQUATO TASSO: HIS LIFE AND WORKS. PART I. " For I have battled with mine agony, And made me wings...wall, And freed the Holy Sepulchre from thrall, And revell'd among men and things divine, And poured my spirit over Palestine, In honour of the sacred...