Works, Volume 2J. G. Gregory, 1864 |
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... Neapolitan duke , who has an unsettled right to be admitted to the council of three hundred . " " Just the difference between smooth water and rough - you ruffle the surface of a canal with a lazy oar , while I run the channel of ...
... Neapolitan duke , who has an unsettled right to be admitted to the council of three hundred . " " Just the difference between smooth water and rough - you ruffle the surface of a canal with a lazy oar , while I run the channel of ...
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... Neapolitan , whose country never was a nation , " returned the gondolier , angrily . " I have heard Don Camillo , who is one educated as well as born in the land , often say that half of the people of Europe have ridden the horse of ...
... Neapolitan , whose country never was a nation , " returned the gondolier , angrily . " I have heard Don Camillo , who is one educated as well as born in the land , often say that half of the people of Europe have ridden the horse of ...
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... Neapolitan - he that is the lord of Sant ' Agata ! " " And of many other fiefs , good Signore , to say nothing of the honors he claims in Venice . Am I right in supposing my errand with you ? " " Thou hast found one whose present ...
... Neapolitan - he that is the lord of Sant ' Agata ! " " And of many other fiefs , good Signore , to say nothing of the honors he claims in Venice . Am I right in supposing my errand with you ? " " Thou hast found one whose present ...
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... Neapolitan might lose more than he would gain ; and to keep both is to infringe a law that is rarely suffered to be dormant . I know little daughter , of the interests of life ; but there are ene inies of the republic who say that its ...
... Neapolitan might lose more than he would gain ; and to keep both is to infringe a law that is rarely suffered to be dormant . I know little daughter , of the interests of life ; but there are ene inies of the republic who say that its ...
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... Neapolitan , it may be for his ever- lasting peace , that the additional wealth he seeks should be withheld . " " I am unwilling to believe , Father , that a cava- lier , who has shown himself so ready to assist the distressed , will ...
... Neapolitan , it may be for his ever- lasting peace , that the additional wealth he seeks should be withheld . " " I am unwilling to believe , Father , that a cava- lier , who has shown himself so ready to assist the distressed , will ...
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Page viii - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land...
Page 393 - PRISONER OF CHILLON. MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd — forbidden fare...
Page 405 - LET us lift up the curtain, and observe What passes in that chamber. Now a sigh, And now a groan is heard. Then all is still. Twenty are sitting as in judgment there ; Men who have served their country, and grown...