Notes of Travel and Study in ItalyTicknor and Fields, 1860 - 320 pages |
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Page 120 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Page 233 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Page 218 - I slipped on. Now I am at a loss to know whether it be my hare's foot which is my preservation ; for I never had a fit of the collique since I wore it, or whether it be my taking of a pill of turpentine every morning.
Page 162 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text...
Page 217 - ... experience and inconvenience of this error in ecclesiastical history, which hath too easily received and registered reports and narrations of miracles wrought by martyrs, hermits, or monks of the desert, and other holy men, and their relics, shrines, chapels, and images : which though they had a passage for a time, by the ignorance of the people, the superstitious simplicity of some, and the politic toleration of others, holding them but as Divine poesies ; yet after a period of time, when the...
Page 234 - Nel fondo erano ignudi i peccatori; dal mezzo in qua ci venien verso '1 volto, di là con noi, ma con passi maggiori, come i Roman per l'essercito molto, l'anno del giubileo, su per lo ponte hanno a passar la gente modo colto, che da l'un lato tutti hanno la fronte verso '1 castello e vanno a Santo Pietro, da l'altra sponda vanno verso '1 monte.
Page 272 - No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...
Page 226 - ... general view of Rome; for there are few other towers so tall, and there is not a single spire or steeple in the city. It is the Torre delle Milizie. It was begun by Pope Gregory the Ninth, and finished near the end of the thirteenth century by his vigorous and warlike successor, Boniface the Eighth. Many such towers were built for the purposes of private warfare, in those times when the streets of Rome were the fightingplaces of its noble families; but this is, perhaps, the only one that now...
Page 216 - This vice therefore brancheth itself into two sorts; delight in deceiving and aptness to be deceived; imposture and credulity; which, although they appear to be of a diverse nature, the one seeming to proceed of cunning and the other of simplicity, yet certainly they do for the most part concur: for, as the verse noteth "Percontatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est...
Page 234 - Che dall' un lato tutti hanno la fronte Verso il castello, e vanno a santo Pietro; Dall' altra sponda vanno verso il monte.