Outline History of Italy from the Fall of the Western EmpireLongmans, Green, 1895 - 283 pages |
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Page 64 - La morte! Il più crudel nemico altro non puote" Che accelerarla. Oh! gli uomini non hanno Inventata la morte: ella saria Rabbiosa, insopportabile: dal cielo Essa ci viene; e l'accompagna il cielo Con tal conforto, che né dar né torre Gli uomini ponno'.
Page 101 - La Notte che tu vedi in si dolci atti Dormire, fu da un Angelo scolpita In questo sasso, e perche dorme, ha vita ; Destala se nol credi, e parleratti." To which Michael Angelo replied : — " Grato m' e il sonno, e piu I1 esser di sasso Mentre che il danno e la vergogna dura ; Non veder, non sentir, m...
Page 271 - Funesta dote d' infiniti guai Che in fronte scritti per gran doglia porte ; Deh fossi tu men bella, o almen più forte, 5 Onde assai più ti paventasse, o assai T" amasse men chi del tuo bello ai rai Par che si strugga, e pur ti sfida a morte ! Che or giù dall'Alpi non vedrei torrenti Scender d...
Page 271 - ... t'amasse men chi del tuo bello ai rai par che si strugga, e pur ti sfida a morte! Che or giù dall'Alpi non vedrei torrenti scender d'armati, né di sangue tinta bever l'onda del Po gallici armenti; né te vedrei del non tuo serto cinta pugnar col braccio di straniere genti per servir sempre, o vincitrice o vinta.
Page 101 - 1 danno e la vergogna dura; Non veder, non sentir m'è gran ventura; Però non mi destar, deh! parla basso.
Page iv - History of Prussia, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day ; tracing the Origin and Development of her Military Organisation. By Capt. WJ WYATT. VOLS. I. & II.
Page 155 - French blood has been treacherously shed," said Napoleon ; " if you could offer me the treasures of Peru, if you could cover your whole dominion with gold — the atonement would be insufficient — the lion of St. Mark* must lick the dust.
Page 14 - I have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity ; and therefore I die in exile...
Page 234 - And there was a great cry in Egypt — lamentation and bitter weeping — for there was not a house in which there was not one dead.
Page 266 - Father, — With the affection of a son, with the faith of a Catholic, with the soul of an Italian, I address myself now, as on former occasions, to the heart of your holiness.