Full Text Search Details
...ad dipped it in the wine and brandy; ‘we poor gentlemen do not travel like princes, but the courtesies and graces of life are precious to us. To your ... ...the enchanted piece of carpet, bought for forty purses by one of the three princes in the Arabian Nights, and had that moment been transported on it, ... ...padrona.’ Though not conceited, Mrs Plornish felt that she had turned this Tuscan sentence with peculiar elegance. Mr Plornish could not conceal his e... ...as was always a spinning at her wheel, she can go to the cupboard with the Princess, and say, what do you keep the Chicking there for? and then they c...

Table of Contents Details
.................................................... 23 CANTO VII. Virgil makes himself known to Sordello.?Sordello leads the Poets to the Valley of the Princes who have been negligent of salvation.?He points them out by name. ....................................................................... 27 CANTO VIII. Valley of the Princes.?Two Guardian Angels.?Kino Visconti.?The S...

Full Text Search Details
...s himself known to Sordello.—Sordello leads the Poets to the Valley of the Princes who have been negligent of salvation.—He points them out by name. .... ................................................ 27 CANTO VIII. Valley of the Princes.—Two Guardian Angels.—Kino Visconti.—The Serpent.—Corrado Malaspina... ...s reported to have had her put to death in his stronghold of Pietra in the Tuscan Maremma. Her fate seems the more pitiable that she does not pray Dan... ... himself known to Sordello.— Sordello leads the Poets to the Valley of the Princes who have been negligent of salvation.—He points them out by name. A... ...T CANT CANT CANT CANTO O O O O VIII. VIII. VIII. VIII. VIII. Valley of the Princes.—Two Guardian An- gels.—Kino Visconti.—The Serpent.—Corrado Malaspi... ...vinzano Salvani was one of the chief supporters of the Ghibelline cause in Tuscany. He was a man of great qualities and capacity, but proud and presum... ...ch thee, by that which thou most desirest, if ever thou tread the earth of Tuscany, that with my kindred thou re- store my fame. Thou wilt see them am... ... Faenza a Bernardin di Fosco, the noble scion of a mean plant? Marvel not, Tuscan, if I weep, when I re- member with Guido da Prata, Ugolin d’ Azzo wh... ...Guido del Duca’s words (Canto XV.), in regard to the prevalence of evil in Tuscany, arising either from misfortune of the place, or through the bad ha...

Full Text Search Details
...velli, and is urged by him in many ways as a matter of vital importance to princes. In 1500 he was sent to France to obtain terms from Louis XII for c... ...uch promises should be kept to what he has written concerning the faith of princes. Machiavelli’s public life was largely occupied with events arising... ..., arms, cloth of gold, precious stones, and similar ornaments presented to princes, worthy of their greatness. Desiring therefore to present myself to... ...man of low and humble condition dare to discuss and settle the concerns of princes; because, just as those who draw landscapes place themselves below ... ...nd to the ambition of Alexander, and to prevent his becoming the master of Tuscany, he was himself forced to come into Italy. And as if it were not en... ...arned his mind when he himself, after taking the Duchy of Urbino, attacked Tuscany, and the king made him desist from that undertaking; hence the duke... ... college. And as to any fresh acquisition, he intended to become master of Tuscany, for he already possessed Perugia and Piombino, and Pisa was under ... ..., valleys, and plains, and riv- ers and marshes that are, for instance, in Tuscany, have a certain resemblance to those of other countries, so that wi... ...aise; and thus it is that one is reputed liberal, another miserly, using a Tuscan term (because an avaricious person in our language is still he who d...

Full Text Search Details
...ENT. Godfrey unites the Christian Peers and Knights; And all the Lords and Princes of renown Choose him their Duke, to rule the wares and fights. He m... ...arp we give; They drink deceived, and so deceived, they live. IV Y e noble Princes, that protect and save The Pilgrim Muses, and their ship defend Fro... ... Y our fights, your battles, and your combats bold. V For if the Christian Princes ever strive To win fair Greece out of the tyrants’ hands, And those... ...rtuous concord they did choose, And all contentions then began to die; The Princes with the multitude agree, That Godfrey ruler of those wars should b... ...bring, Under Clotharius great, a captain good, And hardy knight ysprong of princes’ blood. 13 Torquato Tasso XXXVIII A thousand were they in strong a... ...are, Her girdle did in price and beauty stain, Nor that, with scorn, which Tuscan Guilla lost, Igor V enus Ceston, could match this for cost. 360 Jer... ...the horn of all the Romans’ pride, Who of all Italy the marquis hight, And Tuscan whole possessed as his right. 392 Jerusalem Delivered LXXVII After ...

Full Text Search Details
...him? and to crave His pity for the fardel that I bear. I was of Latiun, of a Tuscan horn A mighty one: Aldobranlesco’s name My sire’s, I know not if y... ...lowest orb. He there who treads So leisurely before me, far and wide Through Tuscany resounded once; and now Is in Sienna scarce with whispers nam’d: ... ...nd by that I crave, Which most thou covetest, that if thy feet E’er tread on Tuscan soil, thou save my fame Amongst my kindred. Them shalt thou behold... ...at a thing that ne’er hath been.” “There stretches through the midst of Tuscany, I straight began: “a brooklet, whose well head Springs up in Fal... ...n Faenza yon Bernardin sprouts, A gentle cyon from ignoble stem. Wonder not, Tuscan, if thou see me weep, When I recall to mind those once lov’d names... ...fearing the too great attachment of the king for his wife Mary, accuses this princess of having poisoned Louis, eldest son of Philip, by his first mar...

Full Text Search Details
... of my country, heroes of the soil, And Romulus, and Mother V esta, thou Who Tuscan Tiber and Rome’s Palatine Preservest, this new champion at the lea... ... thunder of his rout, and through THE GEORGICS 23 Avernian inlets pours the Tuscan tide? A land no less that in her veins displays Rivers of silver, ... ...with their oars, Or rush on steel: they press within the courts And doors of princes; one with havoc falls Upon a city and its hapless hearths, From g...

Full Text Search Details
...irst the Seraphs, then the Cherubs, Thrones, Dominations, Virtues, Powers, Princes, Archan- gels, and Angels. Through them, under the general name of ... ...order to speak little; and not only now to that hast thou disposed me.” “O Tuscan, who through the city of fire alive art going, speaking thus modestl... ...or name, and so in going move thy eyes around.” And one who understood the Tuscan speech cried out behind us, “Stay your feet, ye who run thus through... ...ivilege do they go uncovered by the heavy stole?” Then they said to me, “O Tuscan, who to the college of the wretched hypo- crites art come, disdain n...

Full Text Search Details
...e and most diligent to instil the poison they suck, first into the courts of princes, acquainting them with the choicest delights and criti cisms of ... ...rom out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine, After the Tuscan mariners transformed, Coasting the Tyrrhene shore, as the winds li... ...und in lowly sheds, With smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls And courts of princes, where it first was named, And yet is most pretended. In a place ...

Full Text Search Details
...ervile tone of conversation in the world. They must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them, a king to a king, without ducking or conce... ...es of the Greeks, in the masonry of the Romans, and in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language th... ...ease, than that you could say her manners were marked with dignity, yet no princess could surpass her clear and erect demeanor on each occasion. She d...

Full Text Search Details
... race of wand’ring slaves, abhorr’d by me, With prosp’rous passage cut the Tuscan sea; T o fruitful Italy their course they steer, And for their vanqu... ...The race and lineage of the Trojan kind, Thus answer’d their demands: ‘Y e princes, hear Y our pleasing fortune, and dispel your fear. The fruitful is... ...s yet were green, It well became a woman, and a queen, The vows of T yrian princes to neglect, T o scorn Hyarbas, and his love reject, With all the Li... ...v’d in gloomy night; One cave a grateful shelter shall afford T o the fair princess and the Trojan lord. I will myself the bridal bed prepare, If you,... ...s enrich’d the ground. He, when he heard a fugitive could move The T yrian princess, who disdain’d his love, His breast with fury burn’d, his eyes wit... ... yet sought the Phrygian shore, And Samothracia, Samos call’d before. From Tuscan Coritum he claim’d his birth; But after, when exempt from mortal ear... ...es our fleet Apollo sends; Here Dardanus was born, and hither tends; Where Tuscan Tiber rolls with rapid force, And where Numicus opes his holy source... ... man, and seek again New toils, new dangers, on the dusty plain. Repel the Tuscan foes; their city seize; Protect the Latians in luxurious ease. This ... ...ove from conquer’d Spain His captive herds; and, thence in triumph led, On Tuscan Tiber’s flow’ry banks they fed. Then on Mount Aventine the son of Jo...

Full Text Search Details
...le person who is very unhappy with her father. She is a relation of yours, Princess Mary Bolkonskaya.” Prince V asili did not reply, though, with the ... ...sently he added: “That’s what we fa- thers have to put up with.... Is this princess of yours rich?” “Her father is very rich and stingy. He lives in t... ... a vexa- tious duty and did not return to her the whole evening. The young Princess Bolkonskaya had brought some work in a gold-embroidered velvet bag... ...h, thought that they were in a specially amiable mood that day. The little princess went round the table with quick, short, swaying steps, her workbag... ...be prettier than anyone else,” replied Anna Pavlovna. “You know,” said the princess in the same tone of voice and still in French, turning to a genera... ...Belgians, men from the borders of the Rhine, Piedmontese, Swiss, Genevese, Tuscans, Ro- mans, inhabitants of the Thirty-second Military Division, of B...

Full Text Search Details
...s is what you wanted. Well then, gloat over it! Gloat over it!” After that Princess Mary did not see her father for a whole week. He was ill and did n... ...t see her father for a whole week. He was ill and did not leave his study. Princess Mary noticed to her surprise that during this ill- ness the old pr... ...e 9 Tolstoy me quarrel with him, but you see I need neither her nor you!” Princess Mary spent half of every day with little Nicholas, watching his le... ... “God’s folk” who some- times came by the back door to see her. Of the war Princess Mary thought as women do think about wars. She feared for her brot... ...rrent among the people of an invasion by Antichrist, and though Julie (now Princess Drubetskaya), who had resumed correspondence with her, wrote patri... ...Belgians, men from the borders of the Rhine, Piedmontese, Swiss, Genevese, Tuscans, Romans, inhabitants of the Thirty-second Military Division, of Bre...

Full Text Search Details
...ENT. Godfrey unites the Christian Peers and Knights; And all the Lords and Princes of renown Choose him their Duke, to rule the wares and fights. He m... ...arp we give; They drink deceived, and so deceived, they live. IV Y e noble Princes, that protect and save The Pilgrim Muses, and their ship defend Fro... ... Y our fights, your battles, and your combats bold. V For if the Christian Princes ever strive To win fair Greece out of the tyrants’ hands, And those... ...rtuous concord they did choose, And all contentions then began to die; The Princes with the multitude agree, That Godfrey ruler of those wars should b... ...bring, Under Clotharius great, a captain good, And hardy knight ysprong of princes’ blood. 13 Torquato Tasso XXXVIII A thousand were they in strong a... ...are, Her girdle did in price and beauty stain, Nor that, with scorn, which Tuscan Guilla lost, Igor V enus Ceston, could match this for cost. 360 Jer... ...the horn of all the Romans’ pride, Who of all Italy the marquis hight, And Tuscan whole possessed as his right. 392 Jerusalem Delivered LXXVII After ...

Full Text Search Details
...rence Hung on his shoulders like the Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Glass the TUSCAN Artist views At Ev’ning from the top of FESOLE, Or in VALDARNO, to... ...eous change. He call’d so loud, that all the hollow Deep Of Hell resounded. Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the Flowr of Heav’n, once yours, now lost,... ...owred structure high, Where Scepter’d Angels held thir residence, And sat as Princes, whom the supreme King Exalted to such power, and gave to rule, E... ... Vertues; or these Titles now Must we renounce, and changing stile be call’d Princes of Hell? for so the popular vote Inclines, here to continue, and ... ...n himself was all his state, More solemn then the tedious pomp that waits On Princes, when thir rich Retinue long Of Horses led, and Grooms besmeard w... ...rones, or nam’d Of them the Highest, for such of shape may seem Prince above Princes, gently hast thou tould Thy message, which might else in telling ...

Full Text Search Details
...his lot. But her soul thirsted to see him. How could it be otherwise? If a princess in the days of enchantment had seen a four-footed creature from am... ...ursday; but she was with her girls at church yes- terday, and they had new Tuscan bonnets. Her own had a feather in it. I have never seen that her rel...