Sketches and Studies in Southern Europe: Palermo, Syracuse and Girgenti, Aetna. Athens. Rimini. Ravenna. Canossa. Parma. Fornovo. Two dramatists of the last century. Crema and the crucifix. Bergamo and Bartolommeo Colleoni. Como and il Medeghino. Lombard Vignettes. Monte Generoso. Love of the Alps. Old towns of provence. Appendix: Blank verse. Note on the Orfeo. Eight sonnets of PetrarchHarper & brothers, 1880 - Greece |
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Page 81 - How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
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Page 366 - But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
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Page 378 - ... their speech is to be fashioned to a distinct and clear pronunciation as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the vowels. For we Englishmen, being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a Southern tongue; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward, so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as law French.
Page 350 - But hold some two days' conference with the dead ! From them I should learn somewhat I am sure I never shall know here. I'll tell thee a miracle ; I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow.
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