 | lady Emma Carolina Wood - 1874 - 350 pages
...rubbish." " Did you learn to speak French and Italian when you were abroad ? " " Yes, a little. I like the language— that soft bastard Latin, which melts like kisses from a female mouth. But when in Italy I devoted my time to painting. The very land of art, music and poetry or painting,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1874 - 568 pages
...Moore, Venice, March 25, 1S17. • Ibid. iv. 279 ; Letter to Murray, Ravenna, Feb. 7, 1820. I lore the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, Which sounds as if it should be writ on satin. With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, And... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...to receive, and marble to retain.1 St. 34. Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. St. 39. That soft bastard Latin Which melts like kisses from a female mouth. .». 44. Heart on her lips; and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies. St.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...to receive, and marble to retain.1 st. 34. Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. St. 39. That soft bastard Latin Which melts like kisses from a female mouth. St. 44Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies. St. 45.... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 1971 - 516 pages
...life are followed by Byron's appreciation for Italy's chief adornments, the language and the women: I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth. This provides a contrast for a backward glance at England, with its "harsh northern whistling, grunting... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...happiness! There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy. Fanny Burney (1752-1840) English author I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which...satin With syllables which breathe of the sweet South. Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 pages
...innately sexualized: talk is desire. Byron underscores the connection in writing of Italy in Beppo: I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which...in, That not a single accent seems uncouth, Like our own harsh, northern whistling, grunting guttural, Which we're obliged to hiss, and spit, and sputter... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pages
...rise As from the stroke of the Enchanter's wand. Ckilde HaTold'x Pilgrimage opening of Canto 4 254 That soft bastard Latin Which melts like kisses from a female mouth. [The Italian language] Beppo verse 44 255 When Newton saw an apple fall, he found . . . A mode of proving... | |
 | Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - 1993 - 520 pages
...fashion — so here goes. (st. 52) Or consider the difficulty of placing Byron's praise of Italian: I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which...we're obliged to hiss, and spit, and sputter all. (st. 44) If the very next stanza, beginning "I like the women too," asserts a traditional masculine... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...seeing Italy. FANNY BURNEY (1752-1 840), English author. Mr. Meadows, in Ceci/ia.bk. 4, ch. 2 (1782). 3 onjmons. 2 And LORD BYRON (1788-1824). English poel. ßeppo, st. 44. ó Italia! oh Italia! thou who hast The fatal... | |
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I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, That not a single accent... 
