The Life of Michael Angelo Buonarroti: With Translations of Many of His Poems and Letters. Also, Memoirs of Savonarola, Raphael, and Vittoria Colonna, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857 - 4 pages |
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Page 166 - THE prayers I make will then be sweet indeed If Thou the spirit give by which I pray: My unassisted heart is barren clay, That of its native self can nothing feed : Of good and pious works thou art the seed, That quickens only where thou say'st it may : Unless Thou show to us thine own true way No man can find it: Father ! Thou must lead.
Page 144 - In this was manifested the love of GOD towards us, because that GOD sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved GOD, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Page 128 - Heaven-born, the Soul a heaven-ward course must hold ; Beyond the visible world she soars to seek (For what delights the sense is false and weak) Ideal Form, the universal mould.
Page 166 - No man can find it ; Father ! Thou must lead. Do Thou, then, breathe those thoughts into my mind By which such virtue may in me be bred That in thy holy footsteps I may tread ; The fetters of my tongue do Thou unbind, That I may have the power to sing of thee, And sound thy praises everlastingly.
Page 31 - La Notte che tu vedi in si dolci atti Dormir, fu da un Angelo scolpita In questo sasso, e perche dorme, ha vita : Destala, se nol credi, e parleratti.' To which Michelangelo replied : — ' Grato m' e 'I sonno, e piu 1' esser di sasso, Mentre che il danno e la vergogna dura ; Non veder, non sentir, m...
Page 316 - I have taken another course, one more suited to my abilities, and to the taste of the times in which I live. Yet however unequal I feel myself" to that attempt, were I now to begin the world again, I would tread in the steps of that great master : to kiss the hem of his garment, to catch the slightest of his perfections, would be glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man.
Page 235 - And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.
Page 116 - S'altro si pensa, è falsa opinione. Questo sol l'occhio porta a quella altezza Ch'a pinger e scolpir qui m'apparecchio S'è' giudizi temerari e sciocchi Al senso tiran la beltà, che muove E porta al cielo ogni intelletto sano; Dal mortale al divin non vanno gli occhi Infermi, e fermi sempre pur là dove Ascender senza grazia è pensier vano.
Page 142 - Amor dunque non ha, né tua beltate o durezza o fortuna o gran disdegno, del mio mal colpa, o mio destino o sorte; se dentro del tuo cor morte e pietate porti in un tempo, e che '1 mio basso ingegno non sappia, ardendo, trarne altro che morte.
Page 246 - ... ordered one of his attendants to place him under a tree, with his face towards the enemy; then fixing his eyes on the guard of his sword, which he held up instead of a cross, he addressed his prayers to God, and in this posture, which became his character both as a soldier and as a Christian, he calmly waited the approach of death.