The Decameron; Or, Ten Days' Entertainment of BoccaccioBohn, 1855 - 545 pages |
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abbot acquainted afterwards Agilulf agreeable Aldobrandino Alessandro Andreuccio answer Antigono bagnio beauty began Boccaccio Bologna BRIDGEWATER TREATISES brothers brought Buffalmacco Calandrino called chamber clothes command confess Conrado Cymon daughter dead death Decameron desire door Fabliau father favour fear Ferondo Filostrato Florence fortune friar friends garden gave Genoa gentleman give happened heard hearing holy honour horse husband king King of Cyprus knew lady laugh leave lived lord lover Lysimachus Madam maid manner married matter means mind mistress monk morning Naples never night NOVEL ordered Palermo passion Pavia perceiving person Perugia pleased promised queen quoth regard replied resolved Ricciardo Rinaldo Rossiglione Saladin sent servant soon speak story supposing Tedaldo tell thing thither thou thought told took Torello utmost waiting whilst wife woman women words young
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Page 267 - Sweet Hour of Twilight!— in the solitude Of the pine forest, and the silent shore Which bounds Ravenna's immemorial wood, Rooted where once the Adrian wave flowed o'er, To where the last Caesarean fortress stood, Evergreen forest!
Page 267 - The shrill cicalas, people of the pine, Making their summer lives one ceaseless song, Were the sole echoes, save my steed's and mine, And vesper bell's that rose the boughs along...
Page 227 - ... name was Galeso, but as neither the labour nor skill of his master, nor the correction of his father, was ever able to beat one letter into his head, or the least instruction of any kind, and as his voice and manner of speaking were strangely harsh and uncouth, he was, by way of disdain, called only Cymon ; which, in their language, signified beast. The father had long beheld him with infinite...
Page 263 - ... entirely ; or else to hate her, if he could, as much as she had hated him. But this proved a vain design ; for he constantly found that the less his hope, the greater always his love. Persevering then in his love and extravagant way of life, his friends looked upon him as destroying his constitution, as well as wasting his substance; they therefore advised and entreated that he would leave the place, and go and live somewhere else ; for, by that means, he might lessen both his love and expense....
Page 370 - Florence, which came to him by right of his wife ; and, amongst his other goods there, he used to have a pig fatted every year, and some time about December he and his wife went always to kill and salt it for the use of the family. Now it happened once, she being unwell at the time, that he went thither by himself to kill this pig ; which Bruno and Buffalmacco hearing, and, knowing she was not to be there, they went to spend a few days with a great friend of theirs, a priest in Calandrino's neighbourhood.
Page 508 - With this he embraced her most affectionately, when, rising up together (she weeping for joy), they went where their daughter was sitting, quite astonished with these things, and tenderly saluted both her and her brother, undeceiving them and the whole company. At this the women all arose, overjoyed, from the tables, and taking Griselda into the chamber, they clothed her with her own noble apparel, and as a marchioness, resembling such an one even in rags, and brought her into the hall. And being...
Page 270 - Although his poverty was extreme, never till now had he been so sensible of his past extravagance ; but finding nothing to entertain the lady with, for whose sake he had treated thousands, he was in the utmost perplexity, cursing his evil fortune, and running up and down like one out of his wits. At length, having neither money nor anything he could pawn, and...