A Decade of Italian Women, 第 1 卷Chapman and Hall, 1859 - 460 頁 |
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第 324 頁 - As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.
第 361 頁 - Because authority, though it err like others, • Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, That skins the vice o...
第 13 頁 - And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years...
第 329 頁 - ... cibo e quella, si rallegra e gode, e dentro al nido suo si strugge e rode per desio di seguirla anch'ei volando, e la ringrazia in tal modo cantando che par ch'oltre '1 poter la lingua snode; tal...
第 321 頁 - Colonna, his wife, a woman of the highest character, and abounding in all the virtues which can adorn her sex, had no sooner heard of the intrigue on foot than, wholly untempted by the brilliant hope hung out to her, she with infinite sorrow and anxiety wrote most warmly to her husband, urging him to bethink him of his hitherto unstained character, and to weigh well what he was about, assuring him that, as far as she was concerned, she had no wish to be the wife of a king, but only of a loyal and...
第 375 頁 - ... calling, to be repressed rather than condescended to. Yet the strong and kingly nature of this high-souled old man was moulded into new form by contact with that of the comparatively youthful poetess. The religious portion of the great artist's nature had scarcely shaped out for itself any more defined and substantial form of expression than a worship of the beautiful in spirit as well as in matter. By Vittoria he was made a devout Christian. The change is strongly marked in his poetry ; and...
第 354 頁 - If we inquire what was the faith which chiefly inspired these men, we shall find that the main article of it was that same doctrine of justification, which, as preached by Luther, had given rise to the whole protestant movement.
第 393 頁 - ... coscienzia e di scienzia. Se voi vorrete, in voi non cadrà ignoranzia; perché avete costà la fontana della scienzia, la quale temo che non perdiate se voi terrete questi modi. E sapete bene, come ne starà il reame vostro. Se saranno uomini di buona coscienzia, che non vogliano seguitare il piacere umano con timore servile, ma la verità; essi vi dichiareranno, e porranno in pace la mente e l'anima vostra.
第 373 頁 - III.'s ablest diplomatists, declares t that the ancient glory of Tuscany had altogether passed into Latium in her person ; and sends her sonnets of his own, with earnest entreaties that she will point out the faults of them. Veronica Gambara, herself a poetess, of merit perhaps not inferior to that of Vittoria, professed herself her most ardent admirer, and engaged Rinaldo Corso to write the commentary on her poems, which he executed as we have seen.
第 371 頁 - ... the Protestantism of Vittoria, to show that, though she lived and died in the Catholic Church, she strongly sympathized with Protestant principles : " The angels to eternal bliss preferred, Long on this day a painful death to die, Lest in the heavenly mansions of the sky The servant be more favored than his Lord. Man's ancient mother weeps the deed this day, That shut the gates of heaven against her race, • Weeps the two pierced hands whose work of grace Refinds the path from which she made...