Florentine Tales: With Modern IllustrationsR. Bentley, 1847 - 331 Seiten |
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... , impending woe , Some footstep which the ear hath never heard , But whose approach we feel , until at last The heart , recovering , tells us , -it has past ! XVIII . Do the dead whisper to us ? Ah CANTO I. ] 9 OF FLORENCE .
... , impending woe , Some footstep which the ear hath never heard , But whose approach we feel , until at last The heart , recovering , tells us , -it has past ! XVIII . Do the dead whisper to us ? Ah CANTO I. ] 9 OF FLORENCE .
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... never doubt That , though a woman , I can hold my tongue ; I will undertake the secret shan't come out : If needs be , in my mouth I'll cram a bung , So that my nimble tongue can't wag about . In future times by poets shall be sung This ...
... never doubt That , though a woman , I can hold my tongue ; I will undertake the secret shan't come out : If needs be , in my mouth I'll cram a bung , So that my nimble tongue can't wag about . In future times by poets shall be sung This ...
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... never soared beyond The simple fact that one and one make two , Whose mind is like a shallow stagnant pond , Whose only soul is that beneath his shoe , Calls us 66 too vague . " I own I'm rather fond Of mystifying fools and their ...
... never soared beyond The simple fact that one and one make two , Whose mind is like a shallow stagnant pond , Whose only soul is that beneath his shoe , Calls us 66 too vague . " I own I'm rather fond Of mystifying fools and their ...
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... never cares , - The best critiques he being little better for , — Like other bards I take the easiest rhyme , And tumble now and then on the sublime ! XLV . Men now write epics by mere accident , And publish them , as climax to the ...
... never cares , - The best critiques he being little better for , — Like other bards I take the easiest rhyme , And tumble now and then on the sublime ! XLV . Men now write epics by mere accident , And publish them , as climax to the ...
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... never dreamed that you could feel so naughty . Upon my word I'm half inclined to faint , To think that one so very far past forty Should talk to ladies in a way so quaint . How is it that you can't let sense or law tie Your passions ...
... never dreamed that you could feel so naughty . Upon my word I'm half inclined to faint , To think that one so very far past forty Should talk to ladies in a way so quaint . How is it that you can't let sense or law tie Your passions ...
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ABBOT OF FLORENCE agen angel Anne Green art thou barque beauty beneath blest Boccaccio breast breath bright brow CANTO Chrysos confest corse cried dark dead dear death despair dread dream ducats Duke e'en earth Emperor eyes fair Father feel fell Ferando Fiorante Franciscan friar gazing gentle Gilbert Girolamo glory grace grave Guenda hath heard heart heaven holy Hymen Jovinian kiss lady Lady Hester Stanhope look maid maiden marble Marquis Megatherium monk morning Muses ne'er neath never o'er once palace Pasquino passion pious poets poor pray prayer pride priest Purgatory Rigondi Saint Salvestra scorn sculptor seraph sigh Sighieri Simona sing sleep smile song soon sorrow soul spake spirit stood story sweet tale tears tell thee Theodoret thou thought told twas twill Vianelli wife woman wonder wretched XXIII XXXVI youth
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Seite 191 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises...
Seite 191 - ... 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 191 - ... 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 191 - ... here below. So is the prayer of a good man : when his affairs have required business, and his business was matter of discipline, and his discipline was to pass upon a sinning person, or had a design of charity ; his duty met with the...
Seite 191 - ... 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 191 - 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 191 - ... 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 192 - 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.
Seite 189 - The Tiara and the Turban " describes the incident as happening to himself at Rome ; the Pandar being his tutor, a Roman Catholic priest, esteemed for learning and wit, and not otherwise for licentiousness. Moreover, " The Decameron " itself is full of similar instances. CANTO III. " He will parade his quarrel with the fates, And join, in social pact, a band of desperates." — St. 1. There was some short time since, and probably still is, a society in Paris, expressly for the "mutual encouragement...
Seite 7 - By Heavens ! it must be a pleasant thing To live and die within a garden land, — To see the bursting herbage in the spring, And watch as day by day the buds expand ! To hear the sweet birds in the morning sing, Those songs which the pure heart can understand ! To sit at noon beneath the leafy tree, Whose rustling makes a music like the sea.