Tales from Boccaccio: With Modern Illustrations; and Other PoemsR. Bentley, 1846 - 261 páginas |
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... Methinks , my daughter , you'll be much to blame , If you decline to let me have the key to your Affections , for whatever I may do , I can but have your future good in view . L. So while my friend Ferando's being cured In Purgatory ...
... Methinks , my daughter , you'll be much to blame , If you decline to let me have the key to your Affections , for whatever I may do , I can but have your future good in view . L. So while my friend Ferando's being cured In Purgatory ...
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... tails were tame , Perhaps the very tamest ever known ; At last they found , when just about to fall To blows , the lion had no tail at all . LVIII . Methinks I hear some ugly son of grammar CANTO I. ] THE ABBOT OF FLORENCE . 39.
... tails were tame , Perhaps the very tamest ever known ; At last they found , when just about to fall To blows , the lion had no tail at all . LVIII . Methinks I hear some ugly son of grammar CANTO I. ] THE ABBOT OF FLORENCE . 39.
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With Modern Illustrations; and Other Poems Giovanni Boccaccio. LVIII . Methinks I hear some ugly son of grammar Swear that I've spelt my " vertebra " quite wrong ! What I - the father of the living drama , And the grandfather of all ...
With Modern Illustrations; and Other Poems Giovanni Boccaccio. LVIII . Methinks I hear some ugly son of grammar Swear that I've spelt my " vertebra " quite wrong ! What I - the father of the living drama , And the grandfather of all ...
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... Methinks I now thy jocund face behold , Thou best and wittiest of the mirthful crew : Whose song was ever in the comic key , At war with dismal Horne and tragedy ! XXXVIII . Ferando never quarrelled after this With Gertrude , CANTO III ...
... Methinks I now thy jocund face behold , Thou best and wittiest of the mirthful crew : Whose song was ever in the comic key , At war with dismal Horne and tragedy ! XXXVIII . Ferando never quarrelled after this With Gertrude , CANTO III ...
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... methinks , their names I should be booking ; Salvestra , she ; -and he , Girolamo , A princely Merchant's son - a mere boy , who Played with the girl from veriest infancy , As brothers with their sisters sometimes do— If seldom , does ...
... methinks , their names I should be booking ; Salvestra , she ; -and he , Girolamo , A princely Merchant's son - a mere boy , who Played with the girl from veriest infancy , As brothers with their sisters sometimes do— If seldom , does ...
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ABBOT OF FLORENCE Amorosa Visione angel Baldelli barque beauty began beneath bliss boys brain breath bright brow CANTO Certaldo Church cure Dante Dante Alighieri dark daughter dead dear death Decameron Divina Commedia divine doth dread dreams Duke of Athens edition eyes fair father feeling Ferando Fiammetta Filippo Villani Fiorante Florentine gentle Giovanni Giovanni Boccaccio Girolamo glory grace Guenda heard heart Heaven holy Italian Italian literature jealous kiss Lady Hester Stanhope live look Manni Marquis Methinks mind monk Naples never o'er once Paris passion Petrarca pious poem poet pride prose Purgatory reader Rigondi Saint Salvestra scorn sins sleep song sorrow soul spirit Stanza story swear sweet swore Tale of Boccaccio tears tell thee things thou thought thousand guineas told Twas verse Vianelli virtuous voice wife wine woman word XXXIII young youth
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Página 201 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises...
Página 202 - ... and frequent weighing of his wings ; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over, and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministries here below. So is the prayer of a good man...
Página 202 - ... infirmities of a man, and anger was its instrument, and the instrument became stronger than the prime agent, and raised a tempest and overruled the man; and then his...
Página 201 - I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings ; till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over ; and then it made a...
Página 202 - ... and raised a tempest, and overruled the man; and then his prayer was broken, and his thoughts were troubled, and his words went up towards a cloud, and his thoughts pulled them back again, and made them without intention; and the good man sighs for his infirmity, but must be content to lose the prayer, and he must recover it when his anger is removed, and his spirit is becalmed, made even as the brow of Jesus, and smooth like the heart of God; and then it ascends to heaven upon the wings of the...
Página 202 - ... and raised a tempest, and overruled the man ; and then his prayer was broken, and his thoughts were troubled, and his words went up towards a cloud, and his thoughts pulled them back again, and made them without intention, and the good man sighs for his infirmity, but must be content to lose the prayer, and he must recover it when his anger is removed, and his spirit is becalmed, and made even as the brow of Jesus, and smooth like the heart of God...
Página xvii - ... d'un vecchio freddo, ruvido e avaro ognora con affanno più m'attrista; si che l'aver veduto il giorno caro e ritornare a cosi fatto ostello rivolge ben quel dolce in tristo amaro. Oh, quanto si può dir felice quello che sé in libertà tutto possiede! Oh lieto vivere e più ch'altro bello!
Página xvii - Hac sub mole jacent cineres ac ossa Johannis ; Mens sedet ante Deum meritis ornata laborum Mortalis vitae. Genitor Bocchacius illi ; Patria Certaldum, studium fuit alma poesis.
Página 190 - Likings cause: We have no brave revenge, but to forgo Our full desires, and starve the Tyrant so. They whom the rising blood tempts not to taste, Preserve a stock of Love can never waste; When easie people who their wish enjoy, Like Prodigalls at once their wealth destroy.
Página 202 - In the Planets — the Moon — Mercury — Venus — the Sun — Mars — Jupiter and Saturn — also in the constellation, Gemini, &c. But, alas ! he forgot his maternal planet, Earth. Would it not have been possible to have planted some realm of paradise — some kingdom of heaven — there, also 1 Ah ! Dante ! THE FRANCISCAN ASS. A TALE FROM COLOMBE.