The Life of Lorenzo De' Medici, Called the Magnificent

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Bohn, 1846 - 364 עמודים
 

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עמוד 27 - Thus, loved associates, chiefs of elder art, Teachers of wisdom, who could once beguile My tedious hours, and lighten every toil, I now resign you; nor with fainting heart; For pass a few short years, or days, or hours, And happier seasons may their dawn unfold, And all your sacred fellowship restore: When, freed from earth, unlimited its powers, Mind shall with mind direct communion hold, And kindred spirits meet to part no more.
עמוד 559 - There is hardly any man in modern times who fills so large a space In our history, and of whom we know so little, as Lord Chatham ; he was the greatest Statesman and Orator that this country ever produced. We regard this Work, therefore, as one of the greatest value."— Edinburyft Review.
עמוד 494 - Era il bel viso suo, quale esser suole da primavera alcuna volta il cielo, quando la pioggia cade, ea un tempo il sole si sgombra intorno il nubiloso velo. E come il rosignuol dolci carole mena nei rami alor del verde stelo, cosi alle belle lagrime le piume si bagna Amore, e gode al chiaro lume. 66 E ne la face de...
עמוד 562 - HEEREN'S MANUAL OF ANCIENT HISTORY, particularly with regard to the Constitutions, the Commerce, and the Colonies of the States of Antiquity. Third Edition, corrected and improved. Svo (pub. at 15*.), cloth, 12*.
עמוד 267 - It would indeed be highly disgraceful, and as contrary to your duty as to ray hopes, if, at a time when others display a greater share of reason and adopt a better mode of life, you should forget the precepts of your youth, and forsake the path in which you have hitherto trodden. Endeavour therefore to alleviate the burthen of your early dignity by th'e regularity of your life and by your perseverance in those studies which are suitable to your profession.
עמוד 559 - Robson, and others ; besides many thousand names which have never appeared in any previous Work. This volume, in fact, in a small compass, but without abridgment, contains more than four ordinary quartos. BURNS' WORKS, WITH LIFE BY ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, AND NOTES BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, CAMPBELL, WORDSWORTH, LOCKHART, &c.
עמוד 38 - Cosmo did not desert in adversity the man to whom he had attached himself in prosperity. At the expense of a large sum of money, he redeemed him from the hands of the duke of Bavaria, who had seized upon his person ; and afterwards gave him a hospitable shelter at Florence during the remainder of his life.

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