Tales from Boccaccio: With Modern Illustrations; and Other Poems

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R. Bentley, 1846 - 261 Seiten

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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.

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