Renaissance in Italy, Svazek 1Smith, Elder, 1906 |
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Strana 264 - I count religion but a childish toy And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Strana 93 - O thou soft natural death, that art joint-twin To sweetest slumber ! no rough-bearded comet Stares on thy mild departure ; the dull owl Beats not against thy casement ; the hoarse wolf Scents not thy carrion : pity winds thy corse, Whilst horror waits on princes'.
Strana 250 - Tu proverai si come sa di sale Lo pane altrui, e com" e duro calle Lo scendere e '1 salir per 1
Strana 11 - ... places of his own nature. For the mystic teaching of the Church was substituted culture in the classical humanities ; a new ideal was established, whereby man strove to make himself the monarch of the globe on which it is his privilege as well as destiny to live. The Renaissance was the liberation of the reason from a dungeon, the double discovery of the outer and the inner world.
Strana 194 - Shakspere and an universal sympathy to Goethe. But nowhere else except at Athens has the whole population of a city been so permeated with ideas, so highly intellectual by nature, so keen in perception, so witty and so subtle, as at Florence.
Strana 315 - Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
Strana 10 - During the middle ages man had lived enveloped in a cowl. He had not seen the beauty of the world, or had seen it only to cross himself, and turn aside and tell his beads and pray.
Strana 236 - ... male ; e certo è interesse della città che in qualunque tempo gli uomini da bene abbino autorità. E ancora che gli ignoranti e passionati di Firenze l'abbino sempre intesa altrimenti, si accorgerebbono quanto pestifero sarebbe el governo de' Medici se non avessi intorno altri che pazzi e cattivi.1 22i.
Strana 112 - Grtevius, p. 320.) and pitiless, he joined to immeasurable ambition a genius for enterprise, and to immovable constancy a personal timidity which he did not endeavor to conceal. The least unexpected motion near him threw him into a paroxysm of nervous terror. No prince employed so many soldiers to guard his palace, or took such multiplied precautions of distrust.
Strana 404 - Italy! O Rome! I give you over to the hands of a people who will wipe you out from among the nations! I see them descending like lions. Pestilence comes marching hand in hand with war. The deaths will be so many that the buriers shall go through the streets crying out: Who hath dead, who hath dead ? and one will bring his father, and another his son. O Rome! I cry again to you to repent Repent, Venice! Milan, repent!