Rienzi, the Last of the Roman TribunesC. Scribner's sons, 1902 - 637 pages |
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Adeline Albornoz ambition amidst amongst ancient Rome Angelo Villani Annibaldi arms Avignon Barons beauty blood bold brave brother brow Capitol Cardinal Cavalier Cecco del Vecchio Church citizens Cola di Rienzi court cried crowd dare dark death dream eyes fear Frangipani gaze Grand Company hand hath heard heart Heaven Holy honour hour Irene Italian Italy Knight Knight of St lady liberty lips looked Lord Lord Adrian methinks Naples never Nina noble old Colonna once Orsini palace Palestrina passed passion patricians pause Petrarch plebeian Pope proud Provençal rank replied returned Riccardo Annibaldi robbers Roman Rome round Savelli scarcely seemed Senator Senator of Rome shout Signor silence smile soldiers soul steed Stefanello Stephen Colonna sword Terracina thee thou art thou hast thought tion treal Tribune Tribune's turned tyrants voice Walter de Montreal whispered words young youth
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Page 245 - 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.
Page 618 - Beware lest the senator escape disguised ! " cried a voice behind ; it was Villani's. The concealing load was torn from his head — Rienzi stood revealed ; " I am the senator ! " he said, in a loud voice. "Who dare touch the Representative of the People ? " The multitude were round him in an instant.
Page 131 - Irene," said Adrian, proudly, partly perhaps in anger, partly in his experience of the sex. " Love another, and more wisely, if thou wilt ; cancel thy vows with me, and continue to think it a crime to love, and a folly to be true ! " "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,...
Page 95 - ... 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.
Page 335 - Rienzi led on each assault, wielding an enormous battle-axe, for the use of which the Italians were celebrated, and which he regarded as a national weapon. Inspired by every darker and sterner instinct of his nature, his blood heated, his passions aroused, fighting as a citizen for liberty, as a monarch for his crown, his daring seemed to the astonished foe as that of one frantic ; his...
Page 73 - ... a god, is all that our hearts create ! Our own youth is like that of the earth itself when it peopled the woods and waters with divinities ; when life ran riot, and yet only gave birth to beauty, — all its shapes, of poetry ; all its airs, the melodies of Arcady and Olympus ! The Golden Age never leaves the world ; it exists still and shall exist, till love, health, poetry, are no more, — but only for the young...