The life and pontificate of Leo the tenth, 4th ed., revised by T. Roscoe, Volume 21846 |
Other editions - View all
The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth, 4th Ed., Revised by T. Roscoe William Roscoe No preview available - 2015 |
The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth, 4th Ed. , Revised by T. Roscoe William Roscoe No preview available - 2015 |
The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth, 4th Ed., Revised by T. Roscoe William Roscoe No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
afterwards Alamanni Aleandro Anno appears apud Aretino Ariosto artist atque authority Bembo Bibbiena Bologna Bramante cardinal celebrated character Christi church conduct Count Bossi d'Ital death Domini duke duke of Urbino Ecclesiæ ecclesiastical edition ejus elegance eminent emperor endeavoured enim eorum etiam favour Ferrara Flaminio Florence Francesco Francis French Giovanni Giuliano Guicciard Guicciardini hæc honour Italian Italy Julius Julius II king labours Latin Leo X Leoni letter Ligue Lorenzo Luther Marc-Antonio Medici ment Michel-Agnolo mihi Milan monarch nihil nobis obtained occasion omnes omnibus opinion Papæ papal Pater person Piacenza Pietro Pietro Aretino poem poet pontiff pope principal quæ quam quibus quid quod Raffaello Reformation respect Roman Rome Sanazzaro sanctæ semper sovereign sunt Swiss talents tamen Tebaldeo tibi tion Tirab Trento tuæ tuam Urbino Vasari Vatican Venice vero Vide Ital Vita Leon whilst writings
Popular passages
Page 298 - So that these four causes concurring, the admiration of ancient authors, the hate of the schoolmen, the exact study of languages, and the efficacy of preaching, did bring in an affectionate study of eloquence and copie of speech, which then began to flourish. This...
Page 193 - Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head. 700 Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive : Stones leap'd to form, and rocks began to live ; With sweeter notes each rising Temple rung ; A Raphael painted, and a Vida sung. Immortal Vida : on whose honour'd brow The Poet's bays and Critic's ivy grow : Cremona now shall ever boast thy name, As next in place to Mantua, next in fame...
Page 305 - ... it. Luther, Calvin, Cranmer, Knox, the founders of the reformed church in their respective countries, inflicted, as far as they had power and opportunity, the same punishments, which were denounced against their own disciples by the church of Rome, upon such as called in question any article of their creed.
Page 298 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter ; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 340 - In point of composition, these novels, although much inferior to those of Boccaccio, are written with a degree of vivacity and nature which seldom fails to interest the reader, and which, combined with the singularity of the incidents, will probably secure a durable, although not a very honourable reputation to the author.
Page 601 - ... quod interdici, suspendi vel excommunicari non possint per literas apostolicas non facientes plenam et expressam ac de verbo ad verbum de Indulto huiusmodi mentionem.
Page 263 - Not what they would? what praise could they receive ? What pleasure I from such obedience paid, When will and reason, reason also is choice, Useless and vain, of freedom both...
Page 298 - ... than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment. Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator and Hermogenes the rhetorician, besides his own books of periods and imitation and the like. Then did Car of Cambridge, and Ascham, with their lectures and writings, almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes, and allure all...
Page 296 - DO sooner had he freed his followers from the chains of papal domination, than he forged others, in many respects equally intolerable ; and it was the employment of his latter years, to counteract the beneficial effects produced by his former labours. The great example of freedom...
Page 282 - Since your majesty, and the sovereigns now present, require a simple answer, I shall reply thus, without evasion, and without vehemence. Unless I be convinced, by the testimony of Scripture, or by evident reason, (for I cannot rely on the authority of the pope and councils alone, since it appears that they have frequently erred, and contradicted each other,) and unless my conscience be subdued by the word of God, I neither can nor will retract anything ; seeing that to act against my own conscience...