[148]. The Della Cruscan. The sentimental and affected style, initiated in 1785 by some English residents at Florence, and extinguished by Gifford’s satire in the Baviad (1794), and Maeviad (1796).
To show that power of love
‘He knows who gave that love sublime,
And gave that strength of feeling great
Above all human estimate.’
Wordsworth’s Fidelity.
[149]. Campbell’s Pleasures of Hope. Published in 1799, Gertrude of Wyoming in 1809.
Some hamlet shade. Pleasures of Hope, I. 309–10.
Curiosa infelicitas. ‘Curiosa felicitas Horatii.’ Petronius Arbiter, § 118.
Of outward show elaborate. Paradise Lost, VIII. 538.