Beautiful Women in Art, Volume 1L. C. Page, 1901 - Beauty, Personal |
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Page 153 - La Notte che tu vedi in si dolci atti Dormir, fu da un Angelo scolpita In questo sasso, e perche dorme, ha vita : Destala, se nol credi, e parleratti.
Page 154 - 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!
Page 137 - A dir di questo inusitato inganno di' amor mi fece per mio grave affanno, Ma lui pur ne ringrazio, e lei ne lodo. L' ora sesta era che l' occaso un sole Aveva fatto, e l' altro surse in loco, Atto più da far fatti che .parole. Ma io restai pur vinto al mio gran foco Che mi tormenta, che dove l' noni sole Disiar di parlar, più riman fioco.
Page 221 - Ton ne peut aimer, Mais ou la vie afflue et s'agite sans cesse, Comme 1'air dans le ciel et la mer dans la mer; Leonard de Vinci, miroir profond et sombre...
Page 100 - ... fortunes and their own at the end! of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries in all the courts of western Europe.
Page 137 - Del partir, eh" io restai como quei eh" hanno In mar perso la stella, se'l ver odo Or, lingua, di parlar disciogli el nodo, A dir di questo inusitato inganno Ch* amor mi fece per mio grave affano Ma lui pur ne ringrazio, e lei ne lodo.
Page 69 - ... at the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth centuries between the shopkeepers of London in a variety of trades and their creditors.
Page 122 - ... melancholy silence as to all further, to find out what life, what feelings and actions, such a temperament implies. But Raphael shows us all : the temperament and the character, the real active creature, with all the marks of his present temper and habits, with all the indications of his immediate actions upon him : completely without humor or bitterness, without the smallest tendency to twist the reality into caricature or monstrosity, nay, perhaps without much psychologic analysis to tell him...
Page 43 - ... de Veze and Godefroid. [The Seamy Side of History.] Lechesneau, through the influence of Cambaceres and Bonaparte, appointed attorney-general in Italy, but as a result of his many disreputable love-affairs, despite his real capacity for office-holding, he was forced to give up his position. Between the end of the Republic and the beginning of the Empire he became head of the grand jury at Troyes. Lechesneau, who had been repeatedly bribed by Senator Malin, had to occupy himself in 1806 with the...
Page iii - Cloth decorative, izmo, illustrated, fs.yo. \ book of art and a book of beauty; in which the •**• image of woman, from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present day, offers a sparkling mirror from which are reflected the characteristics of races, the technic of schools, and the ideals of artists. " A fascinating book on a fascinating subject.