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Page 108 - When I awoke Before the dawn, amid their sleep I heard My sons (for they were with me) weep and ask For bread. Right cruel art thou, if no pang Thou feel at thinking what my heart foretold ; And if not now, why use thy tears to flow?
Page 229 - Miserable creature! If thou persist in this, 'tis damnable. Dost thou imagine, thou canst slide on blood, And not be tainted with a shameful fall ? Or, like the black and melancholic yew-tree, Dost think to root thyself in dead men's graves, And yet to prosper ? Instruction to thee Comes like sweet showers to o'er-harden'd ground ; They wet, but pierce not deep.
Page 222 - ... lady, he would have seen that she still preferred the beggar Malaspini to the richest nobleman in the Popedom. With abundance of tears and sighs perusing his letter, her first impulse was to assure him of that loving truth ; and to offer herself with her estates to him, in compensation of the spites of Fortune : but the wretched Malaspini had withdrawn himself no one knew whither, and she was constrained to content herself with grieving over his misfortunes, and purchasing such parts of his property...
Page viii - We must submit to censure, so doth he Whose hours begot this issue ; yet, being free, For his part, if he have not pleased you, then, In this kind he'll not trouble you again.
Page 217 - How many noble and ingenious persons it hath reduced from wealth unto poverty ? nay, from honesty to dishonor, and by still descending steps into the gulf of perdition. And yet how prevalent it is in all capital cities, where many of the chiefest merchants, and courtiers especially, are mere pitiful slaves of fortune, toiling like so many abject turnspits in her ignoble wheel.
Page 224 - I have fattened will not so much as lend to my living. Thou wilt thus regain all thy green summer wealth, which I shall never do; and besides, thou art still better off than I am, with that one golden leaf to cheer thee...
Page 179 - Angel brooded over that unhappy city, shaking out deadly vapours from its wings. It must have been a savage heart indeed, that could not be moved by the shocking scenes that ensued from that horrible calamity, and which were fearful enough to overcome even the dearest pieties and "prejudices of humanity ; causing the holy ashes of the dead to be no longer...
Page 174 - The priest interposing at this passage, in defence of the schoolmaster, Masetto answered him as he had answered the pedagogue, excepting that instead of the Centaurs, he alleged a miracle out of the Holy Fathers, in proof of the powers of magic. There was some fresh laughing at this rub of the bowls against the pastor, who being a Jesuit and a very subtle man, began to consider within himself whether it was not better for their souls, that his flock should believe by wholesale, than have too scrupulous...
Page 228 - ... in her constant affection. They were therefore before long united, .to the contentment of all Rome ; her wicked relation having been slain some time before, in a brawl with his associates. As for the fortunate wind-fall which had so befriended him, Malaspini founded with it a noble hospital for orphans ; and for this reason, that it belonged formerly to some fatherless children, from whom it had been withheld by their unnatural guardian. This wicked man it was who had buried the money in the...
Page 177 - Ser. Sir. Char. View all these, view 'em well, go round about 'em, and still view their faces; round about yet, see how death waits upon 'em, for thou shalt never view 'em more.