Conscious in himself of fluctuations of purpose which he only got the better of by his indomitable will, he usually endowed these characters with his more impulsive, pliant self, as manifested in Werther, in tasso, in Edward of the 'Elective Affinities.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
179 Fairfax, Edward, his version of tasso, v.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green
Paris, 1675. He translated tasso and Ariosto, and became perpetual secretary to the French Academy.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler