Illustrations, Historical and Critical, of the Life of Lorenzo De' Medici, Called the Magnificent;: With an Appendix of Original and Other Documents, Том 53T. Cadell, ... and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh., 1822 - 391 стор. |
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Сторінка 134 - Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable.
Сторінка 135 - Dante, il Petrarca e il Boccaccio, nostri poeti fiorentini, hanno nelli gravi e dolcissimi versi ed orazioni loro monstro assai chiaramente con molta facilità potersi in questa lingua esprimere ogni senso.
Сторінка 150 - A collective body of men make a gradual progress in understanding, like that of a single individual. When I reflect on the vast increase of useful, as well as speculative knowledge, the last three hundred years has produced, and that the peasants of this age have more conveniences than the first emperors of Rome had any notion of, I imagine we are now arrived at that period which answers to fifteen. I...
Сторінка 81 - Tenhove united an indisputable taste in the productions of all the fine arts, and a general knowledge of the state of manners, and the progress of science, in every period of society. The fertility of his genius, and the extent of his information, have enabled him to intersperse his narrative with a variety of interesting digressions and brilliant observations; and the most engaging work that has, perhaps, ever appeared, on a subject of literary history, is written by a native of one country, in...
Сторінка 78 - Medici, in the year 1351, with a body of only one hundred Florentines, forced his way through the Milanese army, then besieging the fortress of Scarperia, and entered the place with the loss of twenty lives. Salvestro de...
Сторінка 150 - Rome had any notion of, I imagine we are now arrived at that period which answers to fifteen. I cannot think we are older, when I recollect the many palpable follies which are still (almost) universally persisted in: I place that of war as senseless as the boxing of schoolboys; and whenever we come to man's estate (perhaps a thousand years hence) I do not doubt it will appear as ridiculous as the pranks of unlucky lads.
Сторінка 222 - But hark, what solemn strains from Arno's vales Breathe raptures wafted on the Tuscan gales ! Lorenzo rears again his awful head, And feels his ancient glories round him spread; The Muses starting from their trance revive, And at their ROSCOE'S bidding, wake and live.
Сторінка 202 - ... importance to those of amusement and levity, suggested to his countrymen the idea that he had two distinct souls combined in one body. Even his moral character seems to have partaken in some degree of the same diversity, and his devotional poems are as ardent as his lighter pieces are licentious. On all sides he touched the extremes of human character, and the powers of his mind were only bounded by that impenetrable circle which prescribes the limits of human nature. As a statesman, Lorenzo...
Сторінка 149 - Florentine dominions against the encroachments of their more powerful neighbours, though perhaps his chief inducement for engaging in so extensive a project, appeared, in the execution of it, rather as a necessary part of his system than as the principal object which he had in view. In these transactions, we may trace the first decisive instance of that political arrangement, which was more fully developed and more widely extended in the succeeding century, and which has since been denominated the...
Сторінка 67 - Eranvi rose candide e vermiglie: alcuna a foglia a foglia al sol si spiega; stretta prima, poi par s'apra e scompiglie; altra più giovanotta si dislega a pena dalla boccia; eravi ancora chi le sue chiuse foglie all'aer niega; altra, cadendo, a pie il terreno infiora.