Metastasio Quotes

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The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.

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In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star and to fix his course.

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The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

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Know that the slender shrub which is seen to bend, conquers when it yields to the storm.

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To take away life is a power which the vilest of the earth have in common; to give it belongs to gods and kings alone.

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If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied!

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That water which falls from some Alpine height is dashed, broken, and will murmur loudly, but grows limpid by its fall.

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What will the stream become in its lengthened course, if it be so turbid at its source?

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Metastasio

Metastasio

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Born: January 3, 1698

Died: April 12, 1782 (aged 84)

Bio: Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.

Known for:

Three Melodramas by Pietro Metastasio
Semiramide riconosciuta (1762)
Puffinpack. Middle Primary Level

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