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Page 141 - ... unwilling that they should live by plunder. And perhaps his real intention was to extort from Rome the means of paying his troops by the mere exhibition of the danger arising from their propinquity, while they remained unpaid. Upon the whole we are warranted in supposing that Bourbon and Frundsberg would hardly have ventured on the course they took, if they had not had reason to believe that it would not much displease their master. And Charles was exactly that sort of man who would like to have...
Page 166 - Medici, and communicated to the cardinal and the two young men the unsuccessful issue of his endeavours ; adding, that seeing that it was too late for there to be any hope...
Page 140 - ... the army of the league did not muster courage to attack or impede the invaders in any way ;) filled the cities exposed to their inroad with terror and dismay. They 'had passed like a destroying locust swarm over Bologna and Imola, and crossing the Apennines, which separate Umbria from Tuscany, had descended into the valley of the Arno not far from Arezzo. Florence and Rome both trembled. On which would the storm burst ? That was the all-absorbing question. Pope Clement, with his usual avarice-blinded...
Page 398 - Tre di fede, e sci d-amore, i Due di pianto, e poni insieme « Tutto al fuoco del timore. « Fa di poi bollir tre ore, « Premi in fine, e aggiungi tanto « D' umiltà, e dolor quanto
Page 397 - Più giocondo, nè maggiore, Che per zelo e per amore Di Gesù divenir pazzo. Sempre cerca, onora ed ama Quel che il savio ha in odio tanto, Povertà, dolori e pianto II Cristian , perch' egli è pazzo . Non fu mai ec.
Page 211 - That's in the captain but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is rank blasphemy.' " "Exactly my meaning — I rather think," said Swinburne, "if a captain calls you no gentleman, you mustn't say the same to him.
Page 175 - Van. F. I, 123: Dobbin still kept up his character of rattle. raw-boned. L. nur: mager; es ist mehr der Mangel an Schönheit, der aus dem Vorwalten einer ausgebildeten Knochenstructur, ohne die symmetrische Bildung des Fleisches entsteht. razor. Ad. Trollope Filippo Strozzi p. 175: these men have, as the proverb says, honey in their mouths, but they keep the razor ready at their girdle. Bed.? read. Macm. Mag. Sept. 1860, p. 357: to take a reading party: von tutors gesagt, die mit Studenten eine Tour,...
Page 180 - ... will to the utmost extent compatible with the like exercise of right by his neighbour, but that a much larger number, all perhaps, should in a corporate capacity enjoy the privilege of tyrannising over each in his individual capacity" (p. 176). Yet, in face of all this, we must never forget that " Florence was, with all its numerous and salient faults, the well-head of political life and social intelligence...
Page 71 - ... no time had been fixed for his execution. His friend Luca had passed the evening with him, and he had supped ; when, without any previous notice, fetters were placed upon his legs, and, having been taken into the chapel, he was told that he was to die. The Neri, as was customary on such occasions, were there waiting for him ; " a confraternity so called from the long black gowns they wore, with hoods wholly concealing their faces, whose self-imposed duty it was to attend on and comfort culprits...
Page 80 - Pagalo and the Athanasian Creed. One of the friends who drops in is sent to the republican convent of St. Mark for the best confessor he can obtain, who at last arrives. Just then the black-masked and black-gowned company of the Neri began to sing the penitential psalms. " Whereupon Pietro Pagalo cried out very sharply, ' Brothers, I don't want that noise in my ears, for it is very disagreeable to me. I have but a short time, and pray content yourselves with keeping quiet, that I may confess myself...