A village commune, by Ouida, Volume 2 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
amidst Annunziata beggar BESANT and JAMES Bindo Terri bitter bread BRET HARTE Carmelo Cavaliere Durellazzo Cecco CHARLES GIBBON child commune Count Saverio cried dead Demetrio Pastorini door eyes face father francs Gigi Canterelli girl Giunta gone grandfather grey hand head heard heart HENRY KINGSLEY honest horse Italian Italy JAMES PAYN JAMES RICE JOHN SAUNDERS JUSTIN MCCARTHY knew land Lelio live looked Luca Finti LYNN LINTON Maremma Messer Nellemane mill-house miller mind Montesacro months mule municipal muttered never night Nunziatina Oh father old Pippo old woman OUIDA PATRICIA KEMBALL Pomodoro poor Prefect Pretore prison Raggi river Santa Rosalia smile sobbed soul starve steam mill Syndic tell thing thought told trees Usciere Vezzaja and Ghiralda Viola WALTER BESANT WILKIE COLLINS winter young youth
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Página 375 - Un homme mort, n'est qu'un homme mort, et ne fait point de conséquence: mais une formalité négligée porte un notable préjudice à tout le corps des médecins.
Página 394 - SMITH. WHAT HE COST HER. By JAMES PAYN. LESS BLACK THAN WE'RE PAINTED. By JAMES PAYN. BY PROXY. By JAMES PAYN. Illustrated by ARTHUR HOPKINS.
Página 365 - ... which decreed their expulsion. My own impression is that in the more guarded and temperate re-affirmations of Ouida's appendix to the book in question, we come as near as may be to the real gist of the matter : — "It is irritating to see the foreign press, which knows nothing, actually, of the condition of things, laying down the law on Italian affairs. The English press attributes all the official evils of New Italy to the transmitted vices of the old regimes. Now I did not live...
Página 375 - No one can accuse me of any political prejudices. My writings have alternately been accused of a reactionary conservatism and a dangerous socialism, so that I may, without presumption, claim to be impartial ; I love conservatism when it means the preservation of beautiful things ; I love revolution when it means the destruction of vile ones. What I despise in the pseudo liberalism of the age is that it has become only the tyranny of narrow minds vested under high-sounding phrases, and the deification...
Página 365 - I do know, that the bulk of the people passionately regret the personal peace and simple plenty that -were had under them. The vices of the present time are those of a grasping and swarming bureaucracy everywhere, and of the selfishness which is the worst fault of the Italian character. Italy is essentially a pastoral country. Those who would turn it into a manufacturing one would be as those who would turn a tabernacle of Giotto's into a breeding-hutch of swine. The people thrive on...
Página 368 - ... to the second ; the second to the third; the third to the fourth ; and so on : Silver, Copper, Iron, Tin, Lead, Zinc.
Página 392 - COLLINS. The Law and the Lady. By WILKIE COLLINS. The Two Destinies. By WILKIE COLLINS. The Haunted Hotel. By WILKIE COLLINS. The Fallen Leaves.
Página 375 - ... accused of a reactionary conservatism and a dangerous socialism, so that I may, without presumption, claim to be impartial : I love conservatism when it means the preservation of beautiful things; I love revolution when it means the destruction of vile ones. "What I despise in the pseudo-liberalism of the age is that it has become only the tyranny of narrow minds, veiled under highsounding phrases, and the deification of a policeman.
Página 392 - Fated to be Free. By JEAN INGELOW. The Queen of Connaught. By HARRIETT JAY. The Dark Colleen. By HARRIETT JAY. , Number Seventeen. By HENRY KlNGSLEY.