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...r eyes declared the stripping power of the sun more lovely than the Trojan princess Cassandra. Knitting a course of turning rays shining upon the Gold... ...e design of her lovely face is more beautiful than the sky’s portrait of a Tuscan sun. Received by grace, a star of benign light shall fall before her...

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...es the world may not be enough for eyes so brilliant that they could blind a Tuscan sun. My bleeding hands hold her first thought with her beside me a... ... Kingdoms are the keys of her melody, I entreat her heart with my love song. Princes came as far as France and kneeled in praise before her feet. Her ...

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...thout Pythagoras his Metempsychosis it can not rightly be translated. The Tuscan altiloquence, the Venus of the French, the sharpe state of the Span... ...into extreame sorrow. This might well be compared to that which one of our Princes was lately seene to doe, who being at Trent, and receiving newes o... ...mongst the lawes that regard the deceased, that which ties the actions of Princes to be examined when they are dea d, seemes to me verie solid. They... ...ar commodities unto nations that observe it, and to be desired of all good Princes: who have cause to complaine that the memorie of the wicked is use... ... but with other customes of his, hee had this one much contrarie to other Princes, who to dispatch their weightiest affaires make often their close-s... ... Affrike, they held as farre as Ægypt; and of Europes length, as farre as Tuscanie: and that they undertooke to invade Asia, and to subdue all the n... ...m, he should never misse to fall upon some idiome of the countrie, either Tuscan, Roman, Venetian, Piemontoise, or Neapolitan; and amongst so many s... ...ountry of Liege they make more account of the Bathes of Luca; and they of Tuscany esteeme the Baths of Spawe more than their owne. In Rome the Fence... ...ssays Germany and Loraine: those of Baden in Switzerland; those of Luca in Tuscanie; and especially those of della Villa, which I have used most ofte...

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... Alexanders. If you should deal with love, with two ounces you may know of Tuscan you can go to Leon the Hebrew, who will supply you to your heart’s c... ... be out of harmony with her own, and should suggest and indicate that of a princess and great lady, he decided upon calling her Dulcinea del Toboso -s... ...” Presently he broke out again, as if he were love-stricken in earnest, “O Princess Dulcinea, lady of this captive heart, a grievous wrong hast thou d... ...xote hight, When from his town he came; With maidens waiting on himself, Princesses on his hack- —or Rocinante, for that, ladies mine, is my horse’s... ...the trader, “I entreat your worship in the name of this present company of princes, that, to save us from charging our consciences with the confession... ...ere must be, and doubtless are, magicians who are carrying off some stolen princess in that coach, and with all my might I must undo this wrong.” “Thi... ...iosity In Florence, a rich and famous city of Italy in the province called Tuscany, there lived two gentlemen of wealth and quality, Anselmo and Lotha...

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... that while my family remained among the stanchest adherents of the exiled princes, your father lost no time in joining the new government; and that w... ... welcome everywhere. He The Count of Monte Cristo 68 spoke Italian like a Tuscan, and Spanish like a Castilian; he would have been free, and happy wi... ... but assuredly to at- tempt a landing either at Naples, or on the coast of Tuscany, or per- haps on the shores of France. Your majesty is well aware t... ...lition would be on foot before he could even reach Piomoino; if he land in Tuscany, he will be in an unfriendly territory; if he land in France, it mu... ...I was the secretary and intimate friend of Cardinal Spada, the last of the princes of that name. I owe to this worthy lord all the happiness I ever kn... ... of The Young Amelia, the profits were divided, and each man had a hundred Tuscan livres, or about eighty francs. But the voyage was not ended. They t... ...re of land capable of cultivation.” “To whom does this island belong?” “To Tuscany.” “What game shall I find there!” “Thousands of wild goats.” “Who l... ...nt which I cannot break. I have promised to escort to the Academie a Greek princess of my acquaintance who has never seen your grand opera, and who re... ...” said the baroness, “if slave she be, she has all the air and manner of a princess.” “Of the `Arabian Nights’?” “If you like; but tell me, my dear Lu...

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...s own household books, as quoted by Mrs. Everett Green in her Lives of the Princesses, and that of Edward I. in Carte’s History, and more recently in ... ...e gesture of the Prince, and overborne by the lovely winning graces of the Princess, stepped for- ward, doffing his cap and bending his knee, and sign... ... Adam to follow his example. “Thou hast been daring peril again!” said the Princess, hold- ing her husband’s arm, and looking up into his face with lo... ...ourt, and we can be private.— Follow the priest,” he added, “and await the Princess’ s pleasure.” They obeyed; and the priest led them through a side-... ...ong foreign accent, and as if it were a great condescension, “the gracious Princess summons you to her presence. Follow me!” The colour rushed to the ... ..., “My Lord, I hear that my brother Guy hath become a Neapolitan count!” “A Tuscan robber would be nearer the mark!” coldly re- plied Edward. “And,” ad...

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...this family who occupies an impor- tant place in the history of the famous Tuscan republic is Silvestro dé Medici, gonfaloniero in 1378. This Silvestr... ...killed Alessandro, Cosmo, the first grand- duke, and all the sovereigns of Tuscany till 1737, at which period the house became extinct. But neither of... ...te lines until the close of the sixteenth century, when the grand-dukes of Tuscany began to succeed each other peace- fully. Alessandro dé Medici, he ... ...ection of men of genius. There were so many, in fact, that even the lesser princes were superior men. Italy was crammed with talent, enterprise, knowl... ...gle house, that of the Medici. From this sketch, we may judge of the other princes of Italy and Europe. All the envoys of Cosmos I. to the court of Fr... ...sole heiress of Lorenzo II., namely, Catherine dé Medici. The duke and the Princess of Florence, 19 Balzac for that was the title by which the young ... ...es, preceded by armed men, and followed by an escort of cavalry. The young princess knew nothing as yet of what her fate was to be, except that the Po... ...n-mother talked with the Lorraine princes, whis- pered in her ear, in good Tuscan, two words which after- wards became proverbs,—words which are the k... ...poisons dies by poison. The Borgias, also Bianca Capello, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, are noted examples of the dangers of that miserable resource. All ...

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...nio, and to Shy- lock, and to the Prince of Morocco, to the fifty aspiring princes, but for these gentry there are other lively con- cerns; for Antoni... ...akespeare, preoccupied mainly though he may have been with the passions of princes, would scarce have pretended to found the best of his appeal for he... ...an—a German of high degree, perhaps an Austrian, a baroness, a countess, a princess. It would never have been supposed she had come into the world in ... ...a long, rather blank-looking structure, with the far-projecting roof which Tuscany loves and which, on the hills that encircle Florence, when consider... ...arm- ing than this occasion—a soft afternoon in the full ma- turity of the Tuscan spring. The companions drove out of the Roman Gate, beneath the enor... ...mely distinguished. What do you say about your niece? The child’s a little princess. Nevertheless,” Madame Merle added, “it won’t be an easy matter fo... ... her marriage and its consequences. The Count was a mem- ber of an ancient Tuscan family, but of such small estate that he had been glad to accept Amy... ...in Rome, which she might musingly have likened to the figure of some small princess of one of the ages of dress overmuffled in a mantle of state and d... ...ing Florence, her next station being an ancient castle in the mountains of Tuscany, the residence of a noble family of that country, whose acquaintanc...

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..., for I don’t know how many years; and how she had shown these dungeons to princes; and how she was the best of dungeon demonstra tors; and how she h... ... room; and I walked up and down it, for half an hour or so, staring at the Tuscan, the old priest, the young priest, and the Avvocato (Red Nose lived ... ...g abuse to them. Then, the old priest, the young priest, the Avvocato, the Tuscan, and all of us, take our places; and sleepy voices proceeding from t... ...nd grim; haunting the old scene; despoiled by pillaging Popes and fighting Princes, but not laid; wring ing wild hands of weed, and grass, and brambl... ..., croaking in answer to the bell, and utter ing, at intervals, the purest Tuscan. How like a Jesuit he looks! There never was a sly and stealthy fell... ...nd when its shining Dome is seen no more, go travelling through cheer ful Tuscany, with a bright remembrance of it; for Italy will be the fairer for ... ... nature and reduce their spirit; mis erable jealousies, fomented by petty Princes to whom union was destruction, and division strength, have been a c...

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...nomads—borrowing a white camel, a day or two. Father says “she was a real princess on that camel!” They hid in a hutment from Herod’s men, his troops... ...e left our horses at the stable, Francesco asked: “Did I mention that the Princess de Lamballe has a son? He’s my age. He wants to study painting. D... ...at San Vittore: I need artists, sculptors, apprentices, courtiers, women, princes, jousting, masques, jewelry, perfume... I need great art. I need a... ...helangelo was absent. A while ago Niccolò Machiavelli wrote me from his Tuscan farm, where he is still exiled from Florence. His disturbing though... .... Watching him, listening to him, I forget the tedious round of courses. Princesse de Lamballe, sitting beside me, a lovely woman in her forties, d... ... sol la mi fa remirare, la sol mi fa sollecita. Tomorrow is my birthday. Princess d’Arezzo will wear a gold mask I designed for her. Pity to hide b...

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... shun vain length of words, A lesson erewhile taught me by thyself.” “O Tuscan! thou who through the city of fire Alive art passing, so discreet ... ... “If ye desire to see or hear,” he thus Quaking with dread resum’d, “or Tuscan spirits Or Lombard, I will cause them to appear. Meantime let thes... ...o that end look round thee as thou go’st.” Then one, who understood the Tuscan voice, Cried after us aloud: “Hold in your feet, Ye who so swiftly... ...ge allows They walk unmantled by the cumbrous stole?” Then thus to me: “Tuscan, who visitest The college of the mourning hypocrites, Disdain not ... ... few He answer’d: “Vanni Fucci am I call’d, Not long since rained down from Tuscany To this dire gullet. Me the beastial life And not the human plea... ...fearing the too great attachment of the king for his wife Mary, accuses this princess of having poisoned Louis, eldest son of Philip, by The Divine Co... ...ame, died about 808, according to Joseph de la Piser, Tableau de l’Hist. des Princes et Principante d’Orange. Our countryman, Ordericus Vitalis, profe...

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...e 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... ...s change. He call’d so loud, that all the hollow Deep Of Hell resounded. Princes, Potentates, 315 Warriers, the Flowr of Heav’n, once yours, now ... ...d structure high, Where Scepter’d Angels held thir residence, And sat as Princes, whom the supreme King 735 Exalted to such power, and gave to ru... ...tues; 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, an... ...mself was all his state, More solemn then the tedious pomp that waits On Princes, when thir rich Retinue long 355 Of Horses led, and Grooms besme... ...s, 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 tellin...

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...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...

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...t in the general imbroglio, actor in the offered play. The function of the Princess, in the remainder, matches exactly with his; the reg ister of her... ...e Spoils of Poynton,” highly individualised though highly intelligent; the Princess, in fine, in addition to feeling everything she has to, and to play... ...ave to let us truthfully read into it the Prince’s and Charlotte’s and the Princess’s visits. It of course on these terms long evaded us, but all the ... ...can,” and scarce less indeed in those of “The Portrait of a Lady” and “The Princess Casamassima,” each of these efforts so redolent of good intentions... ...orrupt generation, demoralised falsified polyglot well before her, with the Tuscan balia who was her first remembrance; the servants of the villa, the d... ...e of her early time, including the good sisters of the poor convent of the Tuscan hills, the convent 32 The Golden Bowl shabbier than almost anything... ...insisting that some strictly civil ancestor—generations back, and from the Tuscan hills if she would—made himself felt ineffaceably in her blood and i... ...that he could usually best recover—the way that there above all, where the princes and popes had been before him, his divination of his faculty had go...

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...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 ...

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...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...