Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 2; Volume 65Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1865 |
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Page 40
... Duke D'Ur- bino . " It is now thirty years , " exclaimed the Pope , with vehemence , “ I have had this desire , and now that I am Pope , shall I not be able to affect it ? Where is the contract , that I may tear it ? 40 [ July , MICHAEL ...
... Duke D'Ur- bino . " It is now thirty years , " exclaimed the Pope , with vehemence , “ I have had this desire , and now that I am Pope , shall I not be able to affect it ? Where is the contract , that I may tear it ? 40 [ July , MICHAEL ...
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... Duke was afraid lest the return of the old revolu- tionary captain should create a commo- tion in the city ; his fears were ground- less . Multitudes thronged to gaze as upon the tomb of an old emperor , under whom all was long ago ...
... Duke was afraid lest the return of the old revolu- tionary captain should create a commo- tion in the city ; his fears were ground- less . Multitudes thronged to gaze as upon the tomb of an old emperor , under whom all was long ago ...
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... Duke of Burgun- dy lay grievously sick at Acre . " May God destroy him ! " cried the meek and charitable soldier of Christ . " May God destroy him , for he would not destroy the enemies of our faith , though he was long in my pay ...
... Duke of Burgun- dy lay grievously sick at Acre . " May God destroy him ! " cried the meek and charitable soldier of Christ . " May God destroy him , for he would not destroy the enemies of our faith , though he was long in my pay ...
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... Duke of Burgundy , estates , to the effect that the owners granted to Dijon certain armorial bear- might not fell the trees , as the best tim- ings , with the motto " Moult me tarde ' ber was reserved for the Royal Navy ; I long or wish ...
... Duke of Burgundy , estates , to the effect that the owners granted to Dijon certain armorial bear- might not fell the trees , as the best tim- ings , with the motto " Moult me tarde ' ber was reserved for the Royal Navy ; I long or wish ...
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... Duke of Burgundy , granted to Dijon certain armorial bear- ings , with the motto " Moult me tarde " I long or wish ardently . This was sculptured over the principal gate , and , in course of years , by some accident the central word got ...
... Duke of Burgundy , granted to Dijon certain armorial bear- ings , with the motto " Moult me tarde " I long or wish ardently . This was sculptured over the principal gate , and , in course of years , by some accident the central word got ...
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Page 408 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's •waste...
Page 83 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 59 - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result...
Page 62 - ... the best ideas, on every matter which literature touches, current at the time; at any rate we may lay it down as certain that in modern literature no manifestation of the creative power not working with these can be very important or fruitful. And I say current at the time...
Page 77 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 59 - ... outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another. Special, local, and temporary advantages being put out of account, that modern nation will in the intellectual and spiritual sphere make most progress, which most thoroughly carries out this programme.
Page 292 - ... days since I was compelled to give a note for seven pounds, to avoid an arrest for about double that sum which I owe. I wrote to every friend I had, but my friends are poor likewise : the time of payment approached, and I ventured to represent my case to Lord Rochford.
Page 62 - ... the grand work of literary genius is a work of synthesis and exposition, not of analysis and discovery ; its gift lies in the faculty of being happily inspired by a certain intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, by a certain order of ideas, when it finds itself in them ; of dealing divinely with these ideas, presenting them in the most effective and attractive combinations, making beautiful works with them, in short.
Page 181 - Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own grinning?
Page 69 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection — to beauty in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?