The Romance of History: Italy, Том 3Edward Bull, 1832 - 389 страници |
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Страница 103 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Страница 239 - O è preparazion, che nell' abisso Del tuo consiglio fai, per alcun bene, In tutto dall' accorger nostro scisso? Chè le terre d' Italia tutte piene Son di tiranni, ed un Marcel diventa Ogni villan che parteggiando viene.
Страница 96 - Xllth centuries, had occupied the mole of Hadrian, and the theatre of Pompey; the Colonna, the Mausoleum of Augustus, and the baths of Constantine. The Conti were in the Quirinal. The Frangipani had the Coliseum and the Septizonium of Severus, and the Janus of the Forum Boarium,* and a corner of the Palatine.
Страница 109 - May Heaven rid the soil of Italy of such a pest! A horrible animal with bald head and bare feet, short in stature, swollen in person, with worn-out rags torn studiously to show his naked skin, who not only despises the supplications of the citizens, but, from the vantage ground of his feigned sanctity, treats with scorn the embassy of the pope.
Страница 96 - If the churches were not spared, it is certain that the Pagan monuments would be protected by no imagined sanctity ; and we find that the Corsi family had occupied the basilica of St. Paul, without the walls; and that the Pantheon was a fortress defended for the pope.
Страница 369 - Marchesa for a long time ; when they left her, the count renewed his endeavours, and she, unable to resist his supplications longer, at last admitted him. The scene that followed was heart-rending, and an eternal reproach to the spirit that had brought about such a crisis : the unhappy youth again, with burning energy, pleaded the cause of his love : he painted his despair in such ghastly colours, that Amalia forgot herself in him ; he vanquished all her objections, he surmounted all her difficulties,...
Страница 292 - Un Papato composto di rispetti, Di considerazioni e di discorsi, Di piu, di poi, di ma, di si, di forsi, Di pur, di assai parole senza effetti; Di pensier, di consigli, di concetti, Di congetture magre per apporsi D...
Страница 58 - Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets, dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright...
Страница 239 - ... summit of the mountains, where the hills cease to rise from the sea, and become more or less of a table-land running off towards the interior, at a distance of between two and three miles from the outside of the city. " — Arnold, Lectures on Modern History. " Ecco ! vediam la maestosa immensa Citta, che al mar le sponde, il dorso ai monti Occupa tutta, e tutta a cerchio adorna.
Страница 365 - ... said the count, embracing her still closer, and holding her pale lips to his, " let me here drink in death ; 'twill be sweeter thus than when dealt by your abandoning me ! — Oh, Amalia ! if you knew what I have suffered, if you knew the anguish that has burnt up my heart and maddened my brain, if you knew the immensity of my love, even in the midst of my despair, not the instant promise of a saintly crown in heaven would lure you from my arms !"