I Promessi Sposi: The Betrothed, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1845 |
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Abbess Adda Agnese ALESSANDRO MANZONI appeared arms arrived asked bailiffs bake-house began Bergamo bravoes bread Capuchin Carneades companions continued convent Count Attilio countenance cried crowd Don Abbondio Don Rodrigo door Duke of Nevers entered escape exclaimed eyes face Father Cristoforo fear Federigo Borromeo feel fellow felt Ferrer forward friar friends gentleman Gertrude give glance Gorgonzola Griso hand hastily head hear heard heart honour justice knew landlord leave Lecco Liscate listen look Lucia matter Milan Milanese mind monastery Monza never night notary obliged passed Perpetua person Podestà poor Prince proclamations quickly rascal reached reader replied Renzo returned reverend mother Rimini scarcely servant side Signor Curate speak stood street talk tell thing thought tion to-morrow tone Tonio took turned village voice walking wish women words youth
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Page i - of modern fiction in a form which may render it accessible to the English reading public. The Italians consider • The Betrothed ' the first fiction of the age, holding some affinity to the school of Sir Waller Scott, but surpassing his works in power and depth, as we confess it certainly does in moral design. ' The Betrothed
Page 287 - to have been established long before Pope Paul V. Louis XIII., in 1621, permitted them to settle in France. The order was, probably, suppressed by Pope Urban VIII. The fraternity of death buries such dead as are abandoned by their relations, and causes masses to be celebrated for them.
Page 137 - help !" Hearing this, they all turned to the house, looked up, approached it in a body, looked up again, listened : all was quiet. Some ran to the street-door ; it was shut and bolted ; they glanced upwards : not a window was open ; not a whisper was to be heard.
Page 142 - Friar Fazio would make no difficulty in the world ; and a poor innocent escaping from the jaws of a wolf...." Omnia munda mundis," added he, turning suddenly to Friar Fazio, and forgetting that he did not understand Latin. But this forgetfulness was exactly what produced the right effect. If the Father had
Page 160 - earthly felicity. Robbed thus of its essence, it was no longer religion, but a phantom like the rest. In the intervals in which this phantom occupied the first place and ruled in Gertrude's fancy, the unhappy girl oppressed by confused terrors, and urged by an indefinite idea of duty, imagined that her
Page 130 - thus it went in the seventeenth century. The besieged, finding that the enemy gave no signs of abandoning the enterprise, opened a window that looked into the churchyard, and shouted out: "Help! help!" There was a most lovely moon; the shadow of the church, and, a little beyond, the long, sharp shadow of the
Page 144 - took their departure ; and Father Fazio shut the door after them, bidding them farewell with even his voice a little faltering. • The trio slowly made their way to the shore they had been directed to ; there they espied the boat, and exchanging the pass-word, stepped in. The waterman, planting one oar on the land, pushed off; then
Page 157 - the child, it seemed as if they could find no other way of expressing their ideas than by the words, " What a lady abbess !" No one however, directly said to her, " You must become a nun." It was an intention understood and touched upon incidentally in every conversation relating to her future destiny. If at
Page 98 - the curate and the witnesses hear it, and then the marriage is just as valid and sacred as if the Pope had blessed it. When once the words are spoken, the curate may fret, and fume, and storm, but it will do no good ; you are man and wife." " Is it possible ?" exclaimed Lucia.
Page 130 - lay dark, still, and well-defined, on the bright grassy level of the sacred enclosure : all objects were visible, almost as by day. But look which way you would, there appeared no sign of living person. Adjoining the lateral wall of the church, on the side next the parsonage, was