Court life at Naples in our own times, by the author of 'La Cava'.1861 |
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amico mio answered anxious arms baby bal costumé Baron Torlone Basilicata beautiful better carriage Castelbianco catafalque Checchina cher child companion Conte Contessa di Malafede Count Giulio countenance cried darling daughter dear Don Ernesto door dread dress ducats Duchessa Elena English entered excitement exclaimed eyes face faithful father fear feel felt Florence Gaetano gaze hand Harford heart Heaven Helen rose heretic hope husband Jones kissed knew lady laudanum laugh leave look Louisa Madame la Princesse Maestà Marchmont Melfi mind Minette mistress Monsieur mother Mowbray Mowbray's Naples Neapolitan never night nurse Padre Calvi peace Pepito Poor Helen present priest Prince Principessa Roman Catholic Signor Signora Contessa silent Sir John Selwood sister smile Sorrento spirit sure table d'hôte tears tell thought told turned uncle waiting wet nurse whispered wife wish woman words young
Popular passages
Page 239 - The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.
Page 126 - Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women : for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
Page 123 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know, that he *which converteth the sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 81 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22.
Page 169 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Page 37 - Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: For he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
Page 108 - I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist : A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Page 330 - The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward.
Page 44 - preaching on apace, With blustering blasts had all ybared the treen, And old Saturnus, with his frosty face, With chilling cold had pierced the tender green; The mantles rent, wherein enwrapped been The gladsome groves that now lay overthrown, The tapets torn, and every bloom down blown. The soil, that erst so seemly was to seen, Was all despoiled of her beauty's hue; And soote fresh flowers, wherewith the summer's queen Had clad the earth, now Boreas...
Page 239 - O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.