Life of Michael Angelo, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1866 |
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Page 158 - 1 sonno, e più l'esser di sasso, Mentre che '1 danno e la vergogna dura, Non veder non sentir m'è gran ventura; Però non mi destar: deh parla basso».
Page 314 - Not all unworthy of the boundless grace, Which thou, most noble lady, hast bestowed, I fain at first would pay the debt I owed, And some small gift for thy acceptance place. But soon I felt, 'tis not alone desire, That opes the way to reach an aim so high ; My rash pretensions their success deny, And I grow wise while failing to aspire. And well I see, how false it were to think That...
Page 303 - Nothing makes the soul so pure, so religious, as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives for it strives for something that is godlike. True painting is only an image of God's perfection, — a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.
Page 507 - 1 viver mio Volgeste al ciel per le più belle strade." These are general forms of expression without any fixed meaning, by which the poem loses its real ideas. It is impossible that this can be any thing but an invention of the editor.
Page 372 - This facade, too, is not Michael Angelo's work. His own was simple and grand. Michael Angelo's criticism of what had been done up to the time of his entering upon office, and of what was now to be done, is contained in a letter, which he must have written at the period of the first negotiations respecting his appointment as chief architect. " Bramante," he writes, " was, if any one deserves the name, one of the most able architects since the days of the ancients. He made the first design for St....
Page 313 - Twixt vice and virtue balancing below, Wearied and anxious in my troubled mind, Seeking where'er I may salvation find. Like one to whom the stars by clouds are crossed; Who, turn which way he will, errs, and is lost. Therefore take thou my heart's unwritten page, And write thou on it what is wanted there; And hold before it, in life's daily stage, The line of action which it craves in prayer. So that, amid the errors of my youth, My own shortcomings may not hide the truth : If humble sinners lower...
Page 372 - Angelo used the following words, which are valuable when we know the, feeling which existed between them: " Bramante was, if any one deserves the name, one of the most able architects since the days of the ancients. And, as it is evident now, whatever the .standard of beauty, whoever departs from his idea, as San Gallo did, departs from the very rules of art.
Page 78 - How shall we speak of him, for our blind eyes Are all unequal to his dazzling rays ? Easier it is to blame his enemies Than for the tongue to tell his lightest praise.
Page 303 - True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it. For, for those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect ; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only an image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which He paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.
Page 273 - Tu se' del morir morto , e fatto divo , Nè temi or più cangiar vita nè voglia-, Che quasi senza invidia non lo scrivo. Fortuna e tempo dentro a vostra soglia Non tenta trapassar, per cui s' adduce 5o Infra dubbia letizia certa doglia.