Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes, Volúmenes1-2G. Routledge and Sons, 1867 - 308 páginas |
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Adeline Albornoz ambition amidst amongst ancient Rome Angelo Villani arms Avignon barons beauty blood bold brave brother brow Capitol cardinal cavalier Cecco del Vecchio Church citizens Cola di Rienzi countenance court cried crowd daring dark death dream eyes fear gaze hand hath heard heart Heaven holy honor hour Irene Italian Italy Knight of St lady liberty lips looked lord Lord Adrian mantle methinks muttered Naples never Nina noble old Colonna once Orsini palace Palestrina passed passion patricians pause Petrarch plebeian pontiff pope proud Provençal Raimond rank replied returned Riccardo Annibaldi Rinaldo Orsini robbers Roman Rome Savelli scarcely seemed Senator Senator of Rome shout signor silence smile soldiers soul steed Stefanello Stephen Colonna stood sword Terracina thee thou art thou hast thought Tribune Tribune's turned tyrants voice Walter de Montreal whispered words young youth
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Página 301 - In this time (says the historian) the woods began to rejoice that they were no longer infested with robbers ; the oxen began to plough ; the pilgrims visited the sanctuaries; the roads and inns were replenished with travellers; trade, plenty, and good faith, were restored in the markets ; and a purse of gold might be exposed without danger in the midst of the highway.
Página 350 - And red in the sunlight the torches tossed, and waved, and danced to and fro, above the heads of the crowd, as if the fiends were let loose amongst the mob. And what place in hell hath fiends like those a mad mob can furnish ? Straw, and wood, and litter were piled hastily round the great doors of the Capitol, and the smoke curled suddenly up, beating back the rush of the assailants. Rienzi was no longer visible, an arrow had pierced his hand — the right hand that supported the flag of Rome —...
Página 286 - Behold the land of the Chaldeans ; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness : they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
Página 325 - Nina, with a foreboding sigh. " Fate ! " cried Rienzi ; " there is no fate ! Between the thought and the success, God is the only agent ; and [he added with a voice of deep solemnity] I shall not be deserted. Visions by night, even while thine arms are around me ; omens and impulses, stirring and divine, by day, even in the midst of the living crowd — encourage my path, and point my goal.
Página 351 - The mob rushed past him — he went on — he gained the last stair descending into the open streets — he was at the last gate — liberty and life were before him. A soldier (one of his own) seized him. "Pass not — whither goest thou?" "Beware, lest the Senator escape disguised!
Página 172 - Cruel!" said Irene, falteringly, and in her turn alarmed. " Dost thou speak in earnest ? " " Tell me, ere I answer you, tell me this : come death, come anguish, come a whole life of sorrow, as the end of this love, wouldst thou yet repent that thou hast loved ? If so, thou knowest not the love that I feel for thee.
Página 301 - Never, perhaps, has the energy and effect of a single mind been more remarkably felt than in the sudden, though transient, reformation of Rome by the Tribune Rienzi. A den of robbers was converted to the discipline of a camp or convent; patient to hear, swift to redress, inexorable to punish, his tribunal was always accessible to the poor and stranger; nor could birth, or dignity, or the immunities of...
Página 131 - ... a hue and lustre never seen but in the south, and even in the south most rare ; the features, not Grecian, are yet faultless; the mouth, the brow, the ripe and exquisite contour, all are human and voluptuous ; the expression, the aspect, is something more; the form is, perhaps, too full for the perfection of loveliness, for the proportions of sculpture, for the delicacy of Athenian models; but the luxuriant fault has a majesty. Gaze long upon that picture: it charms, yet commands, the eye.
Página 130 - So rare were the qualities that could attract her, so imperiously did her haughtiness require that those qualities should be above her own, yet of the same order, that her love elevated its object like a god. Accustomed to despise, she felt all the luxury it is to venerate ! And if it were her lot to be united with one thus loved, her nature was that which might become elevated by the nature that it gazed on. For her beauty, — Reader, shouldst thou ever go to Rome, thou wilt see in the Capitol...
Página 361 - Duke of Bavaria, and Charles, King of Bohemia, who would style themselves Emperors of Italy, to appear before us, or the other magistrates of Rome, to plead and to prove their claim between this day and the Day of Pentecost. We cite also, and within the same term, the Duke of Saxony, the Prince of Brandenburg, and...