Letters from Spain, Italy, and Germany: During a Residence on the Continent of Four Yearsauthor, 1858 - 474 ページ |
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... passion for painting in oil , and spent about twelve hours every day labouring at the art , though his daubs could not be looked at . As we sailed very near Minorca , the skipper proposed we should enter the splendid haven that ...
... passion for painting in oil , and spent about twelve hours every day labouring at the art , though his daubs could not be looked at . As we sailed very near Minorca , the skipper proposed we should enter the splendid haven that ...
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... passion . He vociferated violently in Hungarian , a language of all others the best for cursing and abuse , and , suiting the action to the word , thumped with his monstrous fist on the table , till all the glasses and bottles were ...
... passion . He vociferated violently in Hungarian , a language of all others the best for cursing and abuse , and , suiting the action to the word , thumped with his monstrous fist on the table , till all the glasses and bottles were ...
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... passion for music among all classes , that they manage generally to have a brilliant opera . This gives some animation to the dull old town ; and when the performance is good , and any great singers engaged , numbers of the gayer travel ...
... passion for music among all classes , that they manage generally to have a brilliant opera . This gives some animation to the dull old town ; and when the performance is good , and any great singers engaged , numbers of the gayer travel ...
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... passion for poetry and music , conceived the idea of reviving the chanted declamation of the Greek tradegy , and induced the poet Rinucini to write a drama on the story of Daphne ; and Peri , the first musician of the age , assisted by ...
... passion for poetry and music , conceived the idea of reviving the chanted declamation of the Greek tradegy , and induced the poet Rinucini to write a drama on the story of Daphne ; and Peri , the first musician of the age , assisted by ...
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... passion- ately devoted to the fine arts , and indeed to every pursuit that can exalt and ennoble human life . It was reported , said she , that he was about to be united to the lovely daughter of Mr. Beckford , the celebrated author of ...
... passion- ately devoted to the fine arts , and indeed to every pursuit that can exalt and ennoble human life . It was reported , said she , that he was about to be united to the lovely daughter of Mr. Beckford , the celebrated author of ...
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194 ページ - But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tarn maun ride; That hour, o...
83 ページ - Orsini lived ; and long might'st thou have seen An old man wandering as in quest of something, Something he could not find, he knew not what.
82 ページ - Her vest of gold Broidered with flowers, and clasped from head to foot: An emerald stone in every golden clasp; And on her brow, fairer than alabaster, A coronet of pearls. But then her face, So lovely, yet so arch, so full of mirth, — The overflowings of an innocent heart, — It haunts me still, though many a year has fled, Like some wild melody.
82 ページ - With scripture-stories from the life of Christ ; A chest that came from VENICE, and had held The ducal robes of some old ancestor. That by the way — it may be true or false — But don't forget the picture ; and thou wilt not, When thou hast heard the tale they told me there. She was an only child ; from infancy The joy, the pride, of an indulgent sire.
81 ページ - Dwelt in of old by one of the Orsini. Its noble gardens, terrace above terrace, And rich in fountains, statues, cypresses, Will long detain...
82 ページ - A coronet of pearls. But then her face, So lovely, yet so arch, so full of mirth, The overflowings of an innocent heart, — It haunts me still, though many a year has fled, Like some wild melody! Alone it hangs Over a mouldering heirloom, its companion, An oaken chest, half eaten by the worm, But richly carved by Antony of Trent With Scripture stories from the life of Christ; A chest that came from Venice, and had held The ducal robes of some old Ancestor...
317 ページ - Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident ; or do these workings argue Something within us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities : a God that made all things, man's immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave.
83 ページ - And filled his glass to all ; but his hand shook, And soon from guest to guest the panic spread. ' Twas but an instant she had left Francesco, Laughing and looking back, and flying still, Her ivory tooth imprinted on his finger. But now, alas ! she was not to be found ; Nor from that hour could...
82 ページ - And-in her fifteenth year became a bride. Marrying an only son, Francesco Doria, Her playmate from her birth, and her first love. Just as she looks there in her bridal dress, She was all gentleness, all gaiety, Her pranks the favourite theme of every tongue.
306 ページ - quali, in persona della Notte, rispose Michelagnolo così : Grato mi è il sonno , e più l'esser di sasso, Mentre che il danno e la vergogna dura , Non veder, non sentir, m' è gran ventura : Però non mi destar ; deh parla basso.