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Anna , Countess Pepoli , and widow of the Marquis Sampieri - for her titles ,
according to the Italian custom , are carefully omitted in the title - page , - belongs
by birth to one of the most ancient and illustrious historical families of Bologna .
Anna , Countess Pepoli , and widow of the Marquis Sampieri - for her titles ,
according to the Italian custom , are carefully omitted in the title - page , - belongs
by birth to one of the most ancient and illustrious historical families of Bologna .
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The education of women in Italy is then still eminently domestic and feminine .
Boarding - schools and young ladies ' academies are yet far from being the same
flourishing instilutions as they are with us : and even our countess , while she ...
The education of women in Italy is then still eminently domestic and feminine .
Boarding - schools and young ladies ' academies are yet far from being the same
flourishing instilutions as they are with us : and even our countess , while she ...
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The English traveller forms his estimate of Italian female character from the mock
countesses the Cameriere offers to introduce to ... Walter Savage Landor has
said that it would be difficult to find an honest man in Italy for every forty in
England .
The English traveller forms his estimate of Italian female character from the mock
countesses the Cameriere offers to introduce to ... Walter Savage Landor has
said that it would be difficult to find an honest man in Italy for every forty in
England .
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to the Greek and Latin etymology , passione in Italian is synonymous ' with
feeling . Passion is for them an indispensable element of life . It indifferently leads
, they think , to the noblest exploits and to the darkest enormities . · Hence they ...
to the Greek and Latin etymology , passione in Italian is synonymous ' with
feeling . Passion is for them an indispensable element of life . It indifferently leads
, they think , to the noblest exploits and to the darkest enormities . · Hence they ...
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Finally , it can only be a hopelessly abandoned woman , and one dead to all
feelings of feminine delicacy , that will brave the meddling and gossiping spirit
prevailing in those petty Italian communities . In every small town , - and all towns
in ...
Finally , it can only be a hopelessly abandoned woman , and one dead to all
feelings of feminine delicacy , that will brave the meddling and gossiping spirit
prevailing in those petty Italian communities . In every small town , - and all towns
in ...
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Página 201 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Página 6 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 202 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 202 - Above them all the arch-angel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched; and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge...
Página 205 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Página 202 - Archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate* pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion to behold The fellows of his crime, the followers rather (Far other once beheld in bliss), condemned For ever now to have their lot in pain...
Página 433 - Who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him...
Página 200 - Darke, dolefull, dreary, like a greedy grave, That still for carrion carcases doth crave : On top whereof ay dwelt the ghastly Owle, Shrieking his balefull note, which ever drave Far from that haunt all other chearefull fowle, And all about it wandring ghostes did wayle and howle.
Página 536 - Only Dick Christian,';}; answers Lord Forester, ' and it is nothing new to him.' ' But he'll be drowned,' exclaims Lord Kinnaird. ' I shouldn't wonder,
Página 6 - ... and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity, and ablest judgment have been persuaded that even the school of Pythagoras, and the Persian wisdom took beginning from the old philosophy of this island.