LIFE

OF

PETRARCH

COLLECTED FROM

MEMOIRES POUR LA VIE DE PETRARCH,
BY MRS. DOBSON.

VOL. I.

First American from the seventh London Edition.

Rarò magni errores nisi ex magnis ingeniis prodiêre.

Petrarch.

Thrice happy minds that feel the power of friendship!
Oft do the Muses, on a beauteous eve,
The sky serene, and drowsy Nature hush'd,
Vouchsafe celestial sounds to friendly ears,
And raise their kindred minds with such
Warm fancy, and ethereal forms,

As 'scape the vulgar intellectual eye.

Why need I launch into the praise of friendship?
Friendship, that best support of wretched man
Which gives us, when our life is painful to us,
A sweet existence in another's being.

PHILADELPHIA:

Published by A. Finley and W. H. Hopkins.
Fry and Kammerer, Printers.