St. Mark's Rest: The History of Venice. Supplement i, ii

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G. Allen, 1877
 

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Page 8 - L'acqua , ch' io prendo , giammai non si corse : Minerva spira, e conducemi Apollo, . E nove muse mi dimostran /' Orse. Voi altri pochi, che drizzaste 'I collo Per tempo al pan degli Angeli, del quale Vivesi qui, ma non sen' vien satollo , Metter potete ben per l'alto sale Vostro navigio, servando mio solco Dinanzi all'acqua che ritorna eguale. Que' gloriosi , che passaro a Coleo, Non s'ammiraron, come voi farete, Quando Jason vider fatto bifolco.
Page 40 - But, as the time of rest, or of departure, approaches me, not only do many of the evils I had heard of, and prepared for, present themselves in more grievous shapes than I had expected ; but one which I had scarcely ever heard of, torments me increasingly every hour. I had understood it to be in the order of things that the aged should lament their vanishing life as an instrument they had never used, now to be taken away from them ; but not as an instrument, only then perfectly tempered and sharpened,...
Page 7 - Dentro dal ciel della divina pace Si gira un corpo, nella cui virtute L'esser di tutto suo contento giace. Lo ciel seguente, ch' à tante vedute, Queli' esser parte per diverse essenze, Da lui distinte e da lui contenute.
Page 7 - And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink ; and instead of a girdle a rent ; and instead of wellset hair baldness ; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth ; and burning instead of beauty.
Page 13 - In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up— for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground...
Page 9 - As pale and wan as ashes was his looke ; His body lean and meagre as a rake ; And skin all withered like a dryed rooke ; Thereto as cold and drery as a snake ; That seemd to tremble evermore, and quake : All in a canvas thin he was bedight, And girded with a belt of twisted brake : Upon his head he wore an helmet light, Made of a dead mans skull.
Page 41 - ! — he will follow, not me, but the instincts of his own soul, and the guidance of its Creator. Which, though not a sorrowful subject of contemplation in itself, leaves me none of the common props and crutches of halting pride. I know myself to be a true master, because my pupils are well on the way to do better than I have done ; but there is not always a sense of extreme pleasure in watching their advance, where one has no more strength, though more than ever the will, to companion them.
Page 9 - Act iv. ic. 1.] belly, falls to be mentioned afterwards. The ghastly heap of them, crowned by a human mummy, withered and brown,* beside the coil of the dragon's tail, seem meant merely to add general emphasis to the whole. The mummy (and not this alone in the picture) may be compared with Spenser's description of the Captain of the Army of Lusts : — " His body lean and meagre as a rake, And skin all withered like a dryed rook, Thereto as cold and dreary as a snake. Upon his head he wore a helmet...
Page 13 - Carpaccio follows him) as heavenly judge of a right hope that apostle who reminds his reader how man's life is even as a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away. For the connection — geologically historic— of grass and showers with true human life, compare Genesis ii. 5-8, where the right translation is, "And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb yet sprung up or grown,
Page 10 - He is virtually the beginner of Modernism : these two pictures of his are exactly like what a first-rate Parisian Academy student would do, setting himself to conceive the sentiment of Christ's flagellation, after having read unlimited quantities of George Sand and Dumas. It is well that they chance to be here : look thoroughly at them and their dramatic chiaroscuros for a little time, observing that no face is without some expression of crime or pain, and that everything is always put dark against...

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