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...thendom, St. Germanus came to Britain, sent by St. Romanus, the Apostle of Rome. With him came St. Louis of T royes. These two fair bishops, Germanus ... ...endragon was his name in the Britons’ tongue, but Dragon’s head in that of Rome. Uther was a mighty lord, who had confidence in his power. His sacring... ...self with so rich and noble a bearing, that neither the emperor’s court at Rome, nor any other bragged of by man, was accounted as aught besides that ... ... boast, and gave more largely than he promised. His father had sent him to Rome, that he might be schooled the more meetly. Gawain was dubbed knight i... ...e, and in due season caused the treasure to be delivered to the emperor at Rome. Thus had it been since the time of Caesar, that mighty emperor, who b... ...all the men abiding in the prov ince who carried arms and owned fealty to Rome. He as sembled these together, ordaining a great company, clad in har... ...Wace that the mansions of Caerleon were more desirable than the palaces of Rome. This rich city, Caerleon, was builded on the Usk, a river which falls... ... Very abundantly he laboured, being Arch bishop of Caerleon and Legate of Rome. Many wonderful works were wrought by his hands. The sick were brought... ...one, and saluted the king very 93 Wace courteously. They were citizens of Rome, said the spokes man of these aged men, and were ambassadors from the...

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...ch is set in the grand frame- work of the Apennines. The sculptor had left Rome with the retreating tide of for- eign residents. For, as summer approa... ...d on whom depends much of whatever remnant of prosperity she still enjoys. Rome, at this season, is pervaded and overhung with atmospheric ter- rors, ... ...ense that this was not the young friend whom he had known so familiarly in Rome; not the sylvan and untutored youth, whom Miriam, Hilda, and himself h... ...ave any later intelligence than your- self,” answered Kenyon; “Miriam left Rome at about the time of your own departure. Within a day or two after our... ...its origin in the sylvan life of Etruria, while Italy was yet guiltless of Rome. Of course, as we regret to say, the earlier and very much the larger ... ...heads and sighing, that the young Count was sadly changed since he went to Rome. The village girls now missed the merry smile with which he used to gr... ...re sometimes dances by moonlight on the lawn, but never since he came from Rome did Donatello’s pres- ence deepen the blushes of the pretty contadinas... ...een inspired into the young Count’s simplicity, since their intercourse in Rome. He now showed a far deeper sense, and an intelligence that began to d... ... sky of the summer afternoon, invisibly to him, above the roofs of distant Rome. Then rose tumultuously into his consciousness that strong love for Hi...

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..., at least, to be going to Europe and to be meaning to spend the winter in Rome. Cecilia met him in the early dusk at the gate of her little garden, a... ...d many things when I was in Europe before, but I did not spend a winter in Rome. Every one assures me that this is a peculiar refinement of bliss; mos... ...res me that this is a peculiar refinement of bliss; most people talk about Rome in the same way. It is evidently only a sort of idealized form of loaf... ...t is evidently only a sort of idealized form of loafing: a passive life in Rome, thanks to the number and the quality of one’s impressions, takes on a... ...the upshot of these. “How would you like,” he suddenly demanded, “to go to Rome?” Hudson stared, and, with a hungry laugh which speed- ily consigned o... ...ahma twenty feet tall.” “Nay,” said Rowland soberly, “if you were to go to Rome, you should settle down and work. Athens might help you, but for the p... ...the smallest sum per annum, on which one can keep alive the sacred fire in Rome?” “What is the largest sum at your disposal?” Roderick stroked his lig... ...his feet. “In three words, if you are to be a sculptor, you ought to go to Rome and study the antique. To go to Rome you need money. I ‘m fond of fine... ...n’t forgive— what she ‘ll not really ever forgive—is your taking me off to Rome. Rome is an evil word, in my mother’s vocabu- 31 Henry James lary, to...

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...e set in opposition with the father of the invincible and renowned city of Rome. Let us hope that Fable may, in what shall fol- low, so submit to the ... ...l vigor mind; and of the two most famous cities of the world the one built Rome, and the other made Athens be inhabited. Both stand charged with the r... ...L OMUL OMUL OMULUS US US US US FROM WHOM, and for what reason, the city of Rome, a name so great in glory, and famous in the mouths of all men, was so... ...m- selves here, and, from their own great strength in war, called the city Rome. Others, that at the taking of T roy, some few that escaped and met wi... ...asion of their founding. From this, they say, has come down that custom at Rome for women to salute their kinsmen and husbands with kisses; because th... ...ver, they were both unexpectedly saved, and from them the place was called Rome. Some say, Roma, daughter of the Trojan lady above mentioned, was marr... ...inning at this spot. Upon these accounts the second Larentia is honored at Rome. Meantime Faustulus, Amulius’s swineherd, brought up the 38 V olume O... ... Peparethus, who seem to be the earliest histo- rians of the foundation of Rome, is suspected by some, be- cause of its dramatic and fictitious appear... ...he place where. Romulus chose what was called Roma Quadrata, or the Square Rome, and would have the city there. Remus laid out a piece of ground on th...

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...sels is borne onward through the ages the treasure of human affection.” In Romeo and Juliet Juliet has to be important, just as, in Adam Bede and The... ... Lady bounds, to Antony, but his colleagues, his antagonists, the state of Rome and the impending battle also prodi- giously matter; Portia matters to... ... lived and where Mrs. Touchett occupied a medi- eval palace; she talked of Rome, where she herself had a little pied-a-terre with some rather good old... ... the spectacles. “I’m so red myself. They’ll comfort us on our way back to Rome.” “Ah, they won’t last,” cried the young girl. I wish I could give you... ...I would give you my blue beads,” the child went on. “And do you go back to Rome to-night?” her father enquired. “Yes, we take the train again. We’ve s... ... they return to the convent,” the gentleman explained. “Ah, you go back to Rome? I’ve lately come from there. It’s very lovely now,” said Madame Merle... ...ster of the house asked his new visitor how long it was since she had left Rome. “She came to see me at the convent,” said the young girl before the l... ...than once, Pansy,” Madame Merle de- clared. “Am I not your great friend in Rome?” “I remember the last time best,” said Pansy, “because you told me I ... ... him as he moved about. Then at last she said: “I hoped you’d have come to Rome. I thought it possible you’d have wished yourself to fetch Pansy away....

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...ption of the Coliseum, I have, however, been indebted to the Abbé Gerbet’s Rome Chrétienne; for the Housewives of Lowenburg, and St. Stephen’s Crown, ... ...beauti- ful not to tell. These are the details of the Gallic occupation of Rome, the Legend of St. Genevieve, the Letter of Gertrude von der Wart, the... ...thout a tongue, in allusion to her name, which signifies a lioness. Again, Rome had a tradition of a lady whose mother was in prison under sentence of... ... was in the year B.C. 507, not long after the kings had been expelled from Rome, when they were endeavoring to return by the aid of the Etruscans. Lar... ... Sextus, and gathered all his forces together, to advance upon the city of Rome. The great walls, of old Etrurian architecture, had probably already r... ...ht athwart the stream; And a long shout of triumph Rose from the walls of Rome, As to the highest turret-tops Was splashed the yellow foam.’ The one... ...h of his home, And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the walls of Rome: ‘O Tiber! father Tiber! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman’s life, a R... ... time of Pliny, 600 years afterwards, and was probably only destroyed when Rome was sacked by the barbarians. Nor was the Roman bridge the only one th... ... ITOL OL OL OL OL B.C. 389 B.C. 389 B.C. 389 B.C. 389 B.C. 389 THE city of Rome was gradually rising on the banks of the Tiber, and every year was add...

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...ures coasts and kingdoms of the earth; And, as I guess, will first arrive at Rome, To see the Pope and manner of his court, And take some part of holy... ... is this? Hast thou, as erst I did command, Conducted me within the walls of Rome? MEPHIST. I have, my Faustus; and, for proof thereof, This is the go... ...be bold with his venison. But now, my Faustus, that thou mayst perceive What Rome contains for to delight thine eyes, Know that this city stands upon ... ...r the which two stately bridges lean, That make safe passage to each part of Rome: Upon the bridge call’d Ponte Angelo Erected is a castle passing str... ... swear That I do long to see the monuments And situation of bright splendent Rome: Come, therefore, let’s away. MEPHIST . Nay , stay, my Faustus: I kn... ...r’s feast, The which, in state and high solemnity, This day, is held through Rome and Italy, In honour of the Pope’s triumphant victory. FAUSTUS. Swee... ...perform it, Faustus. Hark! they come: This day shall make thee be admir’d in Rome. Enter the CARDINALS and BISHOPS, some bearing cro siers, s... ... I go. FAUSTUS. Despatch it soon: The Pope shall curse, that Faustus came to Rome. [Exeunt FAUSTUS and MEPHISTOPHILIS .] BRUNO. Pope Adrian, let... ...Pope Julius swore to princely Sigismond, For him and the succeeding Popes of Rome, To hold the Emperors their lawful lords. POPE. Pope Julius did abus...

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... AFRAID to go to Verona, lest it should at all put me out of conceit with Romeo and Juliet. But, I was no sooner come into the old market place, than... ... visaged dog, viciously panting in a doorway, who would certainly have had Romeo by the leg, the moment he put it over the wall, if he had existed and... ...tre, where they had just performed the opera (always popular in Verona) of Romeo and Juliet. In another there was a collection, under a colonnade, of ... ...t was always pleasant Verona, and in my remembrance always will be. I read Romeo and Juliet in my own room at the inn that night—of course, no English... ...ld, And world’s exile is death— 81 Charles Dickens which reminded me that Romeo was only banished five and twenty miles after all, and rather distur... ...Therefore, like Grumio’s story, ‘it shall die in oblivion.’ CHAPTER IX TO ROME BY PISA AND SIENA THERE IS NOTHING IN I TALY, more beautiful to me,... ...s not in such a season, however, that we traversed this road on our way to Rome. The middle of January was 94 Pictures from Italy only just past, and... ...d hiring a good tempered V etturino, and his four horses, to take us on to Rome, we travelled through pleasant T uscan villages and cheerful scenery a... ..., where we passed the night. Next morning at seven o’clock, we started for Rome. As soon as we were out of the pig sty, we entered on the Campagna Rom...

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...y and pleading in his youth, and acquired some reputation and influence in Rome by his elo- quence; but the splendor of his actions in arms, and his s... ...torius highly renowned throughout all Spain, and as soon as he returned to Rome he was ap- pointed quaestor of Cisalpine Gaul, at a very seasonable mo... ...Norbanus, and Scipio fought unsuccessfully against Sylla, now advancing to Rome, when much was lost by the cow- ardice and remissness of the commander... ...hough often forewarned of it by Sertorius, at last he utterly despaired of Rome, and hasted into Spain, that by taking possession there beforehand, he... ...f all patience at the in- dignity and shame it would be for a proconsul of Rome to pay tribute to a crew of wretched barbarians. But he little regarde... ...ce and covet- ousness of the governors from time to time sent thither from Rome, they had generally an aversion to the Roman su- premacy. He, however,... ... for war. As soon as he was informed that Sylla had made himself master of Rome, and that the party which sided with Marius and Carbo was going to des... ... assistance out of Gallia Narbonensis, and Pompey the Great, was sent from Rome, itself, in all haste, with consid- erable forces. Nor did Metellus kn... ...esigns and in counter-scheming himself, the fame of him now spread even to Rome itself, as the most expert commander of his time. For the renown of Po...

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...ven in the age of Pericles, produced no murder of the slightest merit; and Rome had too little originality of genius in any of the arts to succeed, wh... ...which account they bathed so often. Meantime, there was linen to be had in Rome; but it was monstrously dear; and the [Greek: telamones] or linen swat... ...e capital current of the epos, as un- folding ihe origin and incunabula of Rome, is not for a mo- ment suffered to be modified by events so subordinat... ...th, what is the grandest sight to which we ever treat them? St. Peter’s at Rome, do you fancy, on Easter Sunday, or Luxor, or perhaps the Himalayas? P... ...n—which, allowing for the shorter long- est-day and longer shortest-day of Rome, you may call about four in summer—about seven in winter. Why did he d... ...quoi. The Roman went to bed early for two special reasons. 1st, Because in Rome, which had been built for a martial destiny, every habit of life had r... ...le he was, the more was his liabil- ity to military service: in short, all Rome, and at all times, was consciously “in procinct.” 1 Now it was a prin... ...ne but idlers did live much by candle-light. An immense majority of men in Rome never lighted a candle, unless sometimes in the early dawn. And this c... ...r lighted a candle, unless sometimes in the early dawn. And this custom of Rome was the custom also of all nations that lived round the great pond of ...

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...o villain, no that toung of thine, That hath blasphemde the holy Church of Rome, Shall drive no plaintes into the Guises eares, To make the justice of... ...t not a man may live without our leaves. Then shall the Catholick faith of Rome, Flourish in France, and none deny the same. Cardinall. Madam, as I i... ...ant the Pope and popelings in the Realme, And binde it wholy to the Sea of Rome: But if that God doe prosper mine attempts, And send us safely to arri... ...ts prevented, for to end his life, And all those traitors to the Church of Rome, That durst attempt to murder noble Guise. [Enter the Frier .] FRIER. ... ...alles. These bloudy hands shall teare his triple Crowne, And fire accursed Rome about his eares. Ile fire his erased buildings and incense The papall ... ...rre, give me thy hand, I heere do sweare, To ruinate this wicked Church of Rome, That hatcheth up such bloudy practices. And heere protest eternall lo... ...ay see it honourably interde: And then I vow so to revenge his death, That Rome and all those popish Prelates there, Shall curse the time that ere Nav...

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...HEAR ’S HEAR ’S HEAR ’S HEAR ’S HEART T T T T MISS WINCHELSEA was going to Rome. The matter had filled her mind for a month or more, and had overflowe... ... into her conversation that quite a number of people who were not going to Rome, and who were not likely to go to Rome, had made it a personal grievan... ...nst her. Some indeed had attempted quite unavailingly to convince her that Rome was not nearly such a desirable place as it was reported to be, and ot... ... to suggest behind her back that she was dreadfully “stuck up” about “that Rome of hers.” And little Lily Hardhurst had told her friend Mr. Binns that... ...inns that so far as she was concerned Miss Winchelsea might “go to her old Rome and stop there; she (Miss Lily Hardhurst) wouldn’t grieve.” And the wa... ...swelling pride, when at last the great day dawned, and she could start for Rome. The day was bright, the Channel passage would be pleasant, and all th... ...nd consisted mainly in emphatic repetitions of “Just fancy! we’re going to Rome, my dear!—Rome!”—they gave their at- tention to their fellow-traveller... ...y were travelling with one of Mr. Thomas Gunn’s par- ties—fourteen days in Rome for fourteen pounds. They did not belong to the personally conducted p... ...m. These people seemed, indeed, to think that their one chance of reaching Rome lay in keeping close to him. Three little old ladies were particularly...

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...escoes, the pictures; and, fired with a spirit of emulation, he went on to Rome, burning to inscribe his name between the names of Michelangelo and Bo... ...ween his studio work and ex- amination of the works of art which abound in Rome. He had already passed a fortnight in the ecstatic state into which al... ...d the good fortune to drive La Zambinella in a phaeton. When they had left Rome behind, the merriment of the party, repressed for a moment by the batt... ...ught had suddenly revealed some catastrophe. When it was time to return to Rome she entered a berlin with four seats, bidding the sculp- tor, with a c... ...wn by four stout horses and driven by one of the most skilful vetturini in Rome. The ambassador’s palace was full of people; not without difficulty di... ...all this. Cardinal Cicognara is hoodwinking the Pope and the whole city of Rome!’ “The sculptor at once left the salon, assembled his friends, and lay...

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... life. CONSTANCE: O, lawful let it be That I have room with Rome to curse awhile! Good father cardinal, cry thou amen To my keen curs... ... And raise the power of France upon his head, Unless he do submit himself to Rome. QUEEN ELINOR : Look’st thou pale, France? do not let go thy hand. ... ...: Bethink you, father; for the difference Is purchase of a heavy curse from Rome, Or the light loss of England for a friend: Forego the easier. BLANC... ...r a friend: Forego the easier. BLANCH: That’s the curse of Rome. CONSTANCE: O Lewis, stand fast! the devil tempts thee here In like... ...ble prince of France! The next is this, King John hath reconciled Himself to Rome; his spirit is come in, That so stood out against the holy church, K... ... holy church, King John, Act V, scene ii 55 The great metropolis and see of Rome: Therefore thy threatening colors now wind up; And tame the savage s... ...rise into my heart; And come ye now to tell me John hath made His peace with Rome? What is that peace to me? I, by the honor of my marriage bed, After... ...it is half conquer’d, must I back Because that John hath made his peace with Rome? Am I Rome’s slave? What penny hath Rome borne, What men provided, w...

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...erks, I mean the learned ones, in Christian kingdoms Have their free voices: Rome, the nurse of judgment, Invited by your noble self, hath sent One ge... ..., Act II, scene ii 32 I tender my commission; by whose virtue, The court of Rome commanding, you, my lord Cardinal of York, are join’d with me their ... ...ient order about the stage .] CARDINAL WOLSEY : Whilst our commission from Rome is read, Let silence be commanded. KING HENRY VIII : ... ... warranted By a commission from the consistory, Yea, the whole consistory of Rome. You charge me That I have blown this coal: I do deny it: The king i... ...ve These cardinals trifle with me: I abhor This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. My learn’d and well beloved servant, Cranmer, Prithee, return: with... ...is nose Will make this sting the sooner. Cardinal Campeius Is stol’n away to Rome; hath ta’en no leave; Has left the cause o’ the king unhandled; and ... ...than fair visage. Bullen! No, we’ll no Bullens. Speedily I wish To hear from Rome. The Marchioness of Pembroke! NORFOLK: He’s discontented. SUFFOLK: ... ...gether For mine own ends; indeed, to gain the popedom, And fee my friends in Rome. O negligence! Fit for a fool to fall by: what cross devil Made me p... ...m’d the jurisdiction of all bishops. NORFOLK: Then, that in all you writ to Rome, or else To foreign princes, ‘Ego et Rex meus’ Was still inscribed; ...

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...ld you.” “Monsieur,” continued the prisoner, “I am the Abbe Faria, born at Rome. I was for twenty years Cardinal Spada’s secretary; I was arrested, wh... ... returned the Abbe Faria; “and as the emperor had created the king- dom of Rome for his infant son, I presume that he has realized the dream of Machia... ...to every wish formed by Napoleon, had bestowed on him a son, named king of Rome even in his cradle. I was very far then from expecting the change you ... ...y whole life; many of them meditated over in the shades of the Coloseum at Rome, at the foot of St. Mark’s column at Venice, and on the borders of the... ...books — had you any?” “I had nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with one hun... ..., smiling bitterly, opened a volume relating to the History of the City of Rome. There, in the twentieth chapter of the Life of Pope Alexander VI., we... ...ned to make two cardinals.’ “By choosing two of the greatest personages of Rome, especially rich men — this was the return the holy father looked for.... ..., and induced them to arrange their affairs and take up their residence at Rome. Then the pope and Caesar Borgia invited the two cardinals to dinner. ... ...s meant; since Christianity, so eminently civilizing, had made progress in Rome, it was no longer a centurion who came from the tyrant with a message,...

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...s Leonatus, Mother, First Brother, Second Brother, Jupiter. SCENE: Britain; Rome. CYMBELINE ACT I SCENE I: Britain. The garden of Cymbeline’s palace... ...will remain The loyal’st husband that did e’er plight troth: My residence in Rome at one Philario’s, Who to my father was a friend, to me Known but by... ...h’d. I will attend the queen. PISANIO: Madam, I shall. [Exeunt.] SCENE IV: Rome. Philario’s house. [Enter PHILARIO, IACHIMO, a Frenchman, a Dutchman... ...be? Fie! [Enter PISANIO and IACHIMO .] PISANIO: Madam, a noble gentleman of Rome, Comes from my lord with letters. IACHIMO: Ch... ...not so. [Enter a Messenger .] Messenger: So like you, sir, ambassadors from Rome; The one is Caius Lucius. CYMBELINE: A worthy fellow,... ... I’ll be revenged: ‘His meanest garment!’ Well. [Exit.] SCENE IV: Rome. Philario’s house. [Enter POSTHUMUS and PHILARIO .] POSTHUMUS LEONA... ... whit less Than in his feats deserving it—for him And his succession granted Rome a tribute, Yearly three thousand pounds, which by thee lately Is lef... ...e repair and franchise Shall, by the power we hold, be our good deed, Though Rome be therefore angry: Mulmutius made our laws, Who was the first of Br... ... Alas, my lord, How can she be with him? When was she missed? He is in Rome. CLOTEN: Where is she, sir? Come nearer; No further ha...

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... name is Jesus Christ), but is only the bishop and pastor of the Church at Rome, and of those who voluntarily or through a human creature (that is, a ... ...ng three and electing a fourth; supposing, I say, that the Pope and See at Rome would yield and accept this (which, nevertheless, is impossible; for t... ...at last retain no member; neither would it have to be forever confined to Rome or any other place, but it might be wher ever and in whatever church ... ...er to do penance and never to come to repentance. Here now the Holy See at Rome, coming to the aid of the poor Church, invented indulgences, whereby ... ...evised the golden jubilee year [a truly goldbearing year], and fixed it at Rome. He called this the remission of all punishment and guilt. Then the pe...

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...der the best omens, on a new course of life. He was now on his return from Rome, and a visit of some length to Italy. Such a meeting could not but be ... ...ughts and feelings from childhood, had bid farewell to his earthly life at Rome; and thus he seemed given to me to make up in some sort for him whom I... ...ll “his third peregrinity,” had to be decided on; and it was resolved that Rome should be the goal of it, the journey to be done in company with Calve... ...gratify themselves in that pursuit, and be deliberate in their approach to Rome. We will take this free-flowing sketch of their passage over the Alps;... ...lect terrestrial glimpses, the fittest I can find, of his progress towards Rome:— To his Mother. “Lucca, Nov. 27th, 1838.—I had dreams, ... ...he propriety and dis- cretion they display in their present positions.” At Rome he found the Crawfords, known to him long since; and at different date... ...d,—far too abundant for our objects here. His grand pursuit, as natural at Rome, was Art; into which meta- physical domain we shall not follow him; pr... ...d for him may be read in the following excerpts. The Letters are all dated Rome, and addressed to his Father or Mother:— “December 21st, 1838.—Of Rome... ...wondrousness and significance by familiarity with them, the actual life of Rome, the Papacy and its pride, lose; and though one gets accustomed to Car...

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... she saw it upward rise, Though marked by none but quick, poetic eyes (So Rome s great founder to the heavens withdrew, To Proculus alone confessed i... ...nce the egregious wizard shall foredoom The fate of Louis, and the fall of Rome. Then cease, bright nymph! to mourn thy ravished hair, Which adds new ...