The Exiles of ItalyT. Constable & Company, 1857 - 502 Seiten |
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Alice amongst arms Austrians Bassi beautiful Belmonte's bless brow Brunetti calm Carlo carriage cheek Civita Vecchia Clara Clara's heart clasped Connor Hall couch Countess dark door dress dungeon Eccellenza England entered exclaimed exile eyes face father fear Felice Orsini fell Garibaldi gaze gently Giacomo gleam hand happy hastened head heard heart Heaven hope hour husband Ischia Italian Italy jailor Lady Millicent leave light lips looked Lord Mornington Lyndsay Lyndsay's Markham morning mother mountain murmured Naples night Nisida noble palace pale passed priest prison raised replied repose rest Rome rose round Sardinia seemed shade shore side Signor Belmonte Signor G silent Sir Henry smile Sofia soul spoke Stella stood suffering tears THOMAS CONSTABLE thought tone trees turned Ugo Bassi voice W. E. Gladstone watched whilst window
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Seite 286 - THE stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land. The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Seite 281 - The laws of marriage charactered in gold Upon the blanched tablets of her heart ; A love still burning upward, giving light To read those laws ; an accent very low In blandishment, but a most silver flow Of subtle-paced counsel in distress, Right to the heart and brain, though undescried, Winning its way with extreme gentleness Through all the outworks of suspicious pride...
Seite 341 - And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
Seite 308 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha, for Scotland's King and Law, Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Free-man stand, or Free-man fa', Let him follow me!
Seite xvii - Constitution, and, in the awful name of the Most Holy and Almighty God, the Trinity in Unity, to whom alone it appertains to read the depths of the heart, and whom we loudly invoke as the Judge of the simplicity of our intentions, and of the unreserved sincerity with which we have determined to enter upon the paths of the new political order, we have decided upon proclaiming, and we do proclaim, as irrevocably ratified by us, the following Constitution.
Seite xxv - I had heard that the political offenders were obliged to have their heads shaved ; but this had not been done, though they had been obliged to shave away any beard they might have had. I must say I was astonished at the mildness with which they spoke of those at whose hands they were enduring these abominable persecutions, and at their Christian resignation as well as their forgiving temper, for they seemed ready to undergo with cheerfulness whatever might yet be in store for them.
Seite 204 - PRISONER OF CHILLON. MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd — forbidden fare...
Seite xxvii - ... rationally assured as of your lordship's or that of any other man of the very highest character, whilst he stood before me amidst surrounding felons, and clad in the vile uniform of guilt and shame. But he is now gone where he will scarcely have the opportunity even of such conversation. I cannot honestly suppress my conviction that the object in the case of Poerio, as a man of mental power sufficient to be feared, is to obtain the scaffold's aim by means more cruel than the scaffold, and without...
Seite 116 - Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Seite xxiv - ... one. The prisoners had a heavy limping movement, much as if one leg had been shorter than the other. But the refinement of suffering in this case arises from the circumstance, that here we have men of education and high feeling chained incessantly together. For no purpose are these...