Titian: A Romance of VeniceRichard Bentley, 1843 |
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... crown of the Caesars. The Brenta, ere it mixes its waters with the sea, flows on from Padua between banks which, three centuries ago, (the epoch of our tale), were crowned with rows of stately poplars, and dark cypresses. The vines ...
... crown of the Caesars. The Brenta, ere it mixes its waters with the sea, flows on from Padua between banks which, three centuries ago, (the epoch of our tale), were crowned with rows of stately poplars, and dark cypresses. The vines ...
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... crown of the Cæsars . The Brenta , ere it mixes its waters with the sea , flows on from Padua between banks which , three centuries ago , ( the epoch of our tale ) , were crowned with rows of stately poplars , and dark cypresses . The ...
... crown of the Cæsars . The Brenta , ere it mixes its waters with the sea , flows on from Padua between banks which , three centuries ago , ( the epoch of our tale ) , were crowned with rows of stately poplars , and dark cypresses . The ...
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... , grow unconscious of all around her - look again , and she was wreath- ing flowers into a fantastic chaplet with which , for the moment , to crown Beatrice as Flora ! The full tide of her joyous and innocent feel- ings TITIAN . 87.
... , grow unconscious of all around her - look again , and she was wreath- ing flowers into a fantastic chaplet with which , for the moment , to crown Beatrice as Flora ! The full tide of her joyous and innocent feel- ings TITIAN . 87.
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... crown- ed with the winged lion of St. Mark , and the statue of St. Theodore , which had been brought from Constantinople , when Sebastiano Ziani was Doge . Then , too , the silence in the city , ( for the crowds did not come out until ...
... crown- ed with the winged lion of St. Mark , and the statue of St. Theodore , which had been brought from Constantinople , when Sebastiano Ziani was Doge . Then , too , the silence in the city , ( for the crowds did not come out until ...
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... crowns - of statesmen , whose wisdom had been the shield and salvation of their country . The beautiful fictions of mythology , hallowed by time and tradition into yet deeper beauty , sometimes furnished matter for dis- course , and ...
... crowns - of statesmen , whose wisdom had been the shield and salvation of their country . The beautiful fictions of mythology , hallowed by time and tradition into yet deeper beauty , sometimes furnished matter for dis- course , and ...
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admiration Agrippa Albert Durer Amicia amid Andrea Cornaro Antonio Solario appeared artist Asola Astrologer Beatrice beauty Bellini beneath breathed bright Bucentaur Cadore Campanile Carloni cavalier cheek child Chiromancy Cimabue Colantonio colouring Cornelia Count Petigliano crown D'Alvaine dark daughter delight desire Doge Ducal Palace Emperor executed eyes fair fame fancy father favour feelings fortune friends genius gentle Giorgione Giulio Mantoni gondola grace Grand Canal hand happy heart Heaven honour hope hour Italy Jaufré Rudel knew lady Lagunes learned Libro d'Oro light loveliness maiden manner Maximilian memory ment Merceria merit Michael Angelo mind noble Painter painting passed passion pencil Piazzetta poetry portrait Queen Raphael rich scarcely Sculpture seen Seigniory shew Signore Barberigo silent smile song speak speedily spirit spoke sweet thee thou thought tion Titian Tiziano Vecelli truth Venetian Venice Vicenza whisper words youth Zingaro
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Página 172 - It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes; All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance; And so am I for Phebe.
Página 63 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 166 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Página 107 - So the foundations of his mind were laid. In such communion, not from terror free, While yet a child, and long before his time, Had he perceived the presence and the power Of greatness...
Página 88 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise...
Página 172 - Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love. It is to be all made of sighs and tears ; — It is to be all made of faith and service : — It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes ; All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance.
Página 33 - A lovely Lady garmented in light From her own beauty : deep her eyes, as are Two openings of unfathomable night Seen through a Temple's cloven roof: her hair Dark : the dim brain whirls dizzy with delight, Picturing her form ; her soft smiles shone afar, And her low voice was heard like love, and drew All living things towards this wonder new.
Página 113 - Love ! I will tell thee what it is to love ! It is to build with human thoughts a shrine, Where hope sits brooding like a beauteous dove ; Where time seems young — and life a thing divine. All tastes, all pleasures, all desires combine To consecrate this sanctuary of bliss. Above, the stars in shroudless beauty shine; Around, the streams their flowery margins kiss: And if there's heaven on earth, that heaven is surely this.
Página 73 - s as good as t' other. XLm And then there was — but why should I go on, Unless the ladies should go off? — there was Indeed a certain fair and fairy one, Of the best class, and better than her class, — Aurora Raby, a young star who shone O'er Life, too sweet an image for such glass, A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded...