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... Antonio Cappelletti , a gay , good - humoured man , who was the head of the family , many entertainments were given day and night , at which the whole City assisted . To one of these , following a cruel mistress , ( as is the custom of ...
... Antonio Cappelletti , a gay , good - humoured man , who was the head of the family , many entertainments were given day and night , at which the whole City assisted . To one of these , following a cruel mistress , ( as is the custom of ...
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... Antonio , I have seen , for many days past , our child in such affliction , that , as you may perceive , she no longer appears what she was ; and much as I have examined her , I have not been able to draw from her the cause of her ...
... Antonio , I have seen , for many days past , our child in such affliction , that , as you may perceive , she no longer appears what she was ; and much as I have examined her , I have not been able to draw from her the cause of her ...
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... Antonio and Madonna Giovanna not being able , either by threats or entreaties to find out why their daughter would not marry ; nor in any way discover the object of her love ; and Mad . Giovanna having said to her several times : « Weep ...
... Antonio and Madonna Giovanna not being able , either by threats or entreaties to find out why their daughter would not marry ; nor in any way discover the object of her love ; and Mad . Giovanna having said to her several times : « Weep ...
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... Antonio and Madonna Giovanna laid aside all suspicion of her having formed an attachment ; and believing that her former grief had been occasioned by some strange and me- lancholy accident , would willingly have given up for the present ...
... Antonio and Madonna Giovanna laid aside all suspicion of her having formed an attachment ; and believing that her former grief had been occasioned by some strange and me- lancholy accident , would willingly have given up for the present ...
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... Antonio , who was not far off , hearing the noise , ran trembling to his daughter's chamber ; and seeing her on the bed , and hearing what she had drank , although he believed her dead , yet for his better satisfaction , sent quickly to ...
... Antonio , who was not far off , hearing the noise , ran trembling to his daughter's chamber ; and seeing her on the bed , and hearing what she had drank , although he believed her dead , yet for his better satisfaction , sent quickly to ...
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Page 46 - Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day : It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear : Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Page 45 - It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
Page 45 - But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 46 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page viii - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Page 231 - Le blason des armoiries de tous les chevaliers de l'ordre de la Toison d'or...
Page 450 - Of his intellectual character, the constituent and fundamental principle was Good Sense, a prompt and intuitive perception of consonance and propriety. He saw immediately, of his own conceptions, what was to be chosen, and what to be rejected ; and, in the works of others, what was to be shunned, and what was to be copied. But good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects...
Page 363 - France ruinée sous le règne de Louis XIV, par qui et comment, avec les moyens de la rétablir en peu de temps...
Page 446 - Every reader of this journal must have been impressed with the words which conclude his notice of the Vale of Grasmere: — " Not a single red tile, no flaring gentleman's house or garden-wall, breaks in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise; but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty, in its neatest and most becoming attire.
Page 190 - The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, . < To scorn delights, and live laborious days.