Tales from Boccaccio: With Modern Illustrations; and Other PoemsR. Bentley, 1846 - 261 Seiten |
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... poet and the mystic , or the sage ; it had not yet been made the inheritance of the people . This was reserved for Boccaccio , to whom was committed the task of rendering it more attractive , by investing it with a romantic costume ...
... poet and the mystic , or the sage ; it had not yet been made the inheritance of the people . This was reserved for Boccaccio , to whom was committed the task of rendering it more attractive , by investing it with a romantic costume ...
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... poet's position at Florence ; his father , whose temper seems by no means to have been improved by age , had twice married- first , Margherita di Gian Donata , * and who appears to have survived her marriage only four years ; and next ...
... poet's position at Florence ; his father , whose temper seems by no means to have been improved by age , had twice married- first , Margherita di Gian Donata , * and who appears to have survived her marriage only four years ; and next ...
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... poets . Thus then we have our poet at once given up to a life of literary labour , and rejoicing in all the society most congenial to one so determined . It does not appear that the king of Naples and Sicily had his attention attracted ...
... poets . Thus then we have our poet at once given up to a life of literary labour , and rejoicing in all the society most congenial to one so determined . It does not appear that the king of Naples and Sicily had his attention attracted ...
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... poet's love . The life of this lady is but little known , and the very dates of her birth and death are subjects of controversy . Sansovino relates that in the year 1380 , the year in which the Queen Johanna was strangled , Mary was ...
... poet's love . The life of this lady is but little known , and the very dates of her birth and death are subjects of controversy . Sansovino relates that in the year 1380 , the year in which the Queen Johanna was strangled , Mary was ...
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... poet mourn- ing the death of Petrarca , observes that he ( Petrarca ) was then in the blessed company of Laura and Fiammetta , * unless we suppose that the repeated notices of her death are all intended as means of concealing the true ...
... poet mourn- ing the death of Petrarca , observes that he ( Petrarca ) was then in the blessed company of Laura and Fiammetta , * unless we suppose that the repeated notices of her death are all intended as means of concealing the true ...
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ABBOT OF FLORENCE Amorosa Visione angel Baldelli barque beauty began beneath bliss boys brain breath bright brow CANTO Certaldo Church cure Dante Dante Alighieri dark daughter dead dear death Decameron Divina Commedia divine doth dread dreams Duke of Athens edition eyes fair father feeling Ferando Fiammetta Filippo Villani Fiorante Florentine gentle Giovanni Giovanni Boccaccio Girolamo glory grace Guenda heard heart Heaven holy Italian Italian literature jealous kiss Lady Hester Stanhope live look Manni Marquis Methinks mind monk Naples never o'er once Paris passion Petrarca pious poem poet pride prose Purgatory reader Rigondi Saint Salvestra scorn sins sleep song sorrow soul spirit Stanza story swear sweet swore Tale of Boccaccio tears tell thee things thou thought thousand guineas told Twas verse Vianelli virtuous voice wife wine woman word XXXIII young youth
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Seite 201 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises...
Seite 202 - ... and frequent weighing of his wings ; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over, and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministries here below. So is the prayer of a good man...
Seite 202 - ... infirmities of a man, and anger was its instrument, and the instrument became stronger than the prime agent, and raised a tempest and overruled the man; and then his...
Seite 201 - I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings ; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over ; and then it made a...
Seite 202 - ... and raised a tempest, and overruled the man; and then his prayer was broken, and his thoughts were troubled, and his words went up towards a cloud, and his thoughts pulled them back again, and made them without intention; and the good man sighs for his infirmity, but must be content to lose the prayer, and he must recover it when his anger is removed, and his spirit is becalmed, made even as the brow of Jesus, and smooth like the heart of God; and then it ascends to heaven upon the wings of the...
Seite 202 - ... and raised a tempest, and overruled the man ; and then his prayer was broken, and his thoughts were troubled, and his words went up towards a cloud, and his thoughts pulled them back again, and made them without intention, and the good man sighs for his infirmity, but must be content to lose the prayer, and he must recover it when his anger is removed, and his spirit is becalmed, and made even as the brow of Jesus, and smooth like the heart of God...
Seite xvii - ... d'un vecchio freddo, ruvido e avaro ognora con affanno più m'attrista; si che l'aver veduto il giorno caro e ritornare a cosi fatto ostello rivolge ben quel dolce in tristo amaro. Oh, quanto si può dir felice quello che sé in libertà tutto possiede! Oh lieto vivere e più ch'altro bello!
Seite xvii - Hac sub mole jacent cineres ac ossa Johannis ; Mens sedet ante Deum meritis ornata laborum Mortalis vitae. Genitor Bocchacius illi ; Patria Certaldum, studium fuit alma poesis.
Seite 190 - Likings cause: We have no brave revenge, but to forgo Our full desires, and starve the Tyrant so. They whom the rising blood tempts not to taste, Preserve a stock of Love can never waste; When easie people who their wish enjoy, Like Prodigalls at once their wealth destroy.
Seite 202 - In the Planets — the Moon — Mercury — Venus — the Sun — Mars — Jupiter and Saturn — also in the constellation, Gemini, &c. But, alas ! he forgot his maternal planet, Earth. Would it not have been possible to have planted some realm of paradise — some kingdom of heaven — there, also 1 Ah ! Dante ! THE FRANCISCAN ASS. A TALE FROM COLOMBE.