 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 800 pàgines
...Michael Angelo has written on the pedestal, " Sleep is sweet, and yet more sweet is it to be of stone while misery and wrong endure. Not to see, not to...captured it. The last free government was destroyed. Mercenaries broke into the houses killing its best citizens. Four hundred and sixty emigres were condemned... | |
 | Mrs. B. M. Buckhout - 1882 - 280 pàgines
...the pedestal of Night the sculptor wrote : " Sleep is sweet, and yet more sweet it is to be of stone, while misery and wrong endure. Not to see, not to...is my joy. So wake me not. Ah, speak in whispers." Do not those lines speak eloquently of his love for Florence and his agony of despair at her downfall... | |
 | Mrs. B. M. Buckhout - 1882 - 288 pàgines
...the pedestal of Night the sculptor wrote : " Sleep is sweet, and yet more sweet it is to be of stone, while misery and wrong endure. Not to see, not to...is my joy. So wake me not. Ah, speak in whispers." Do not those lines speak eloquently of his love for Florence and his agony of despair at her downfall... | |
 | Lafayette Charles Loomis - 1901 - 654 pàgines
...indignant at slavery. written on the pedestal, ' Sleep is sweet, and yet more sweet is it to be of stone while misery and wrong endure. Not to see, not to feel, is my joy. So wake me not I Ah, speak in whisper* ! ' These lines are not necessary to make the sentiment which guided his hand... | |
 | Rachel Annand Taylor - 1923 - 314 pàgines
...Sleeper in the sacristy, yet murmur darkling : " Sleep is sweet, and yet more sweet is it to be of stone while misery and wrong endure. Not to see, not to...my joy. So wake me not ! Ah ! speak in whispers." Leading Dates AD Cosimo de' Medici 1389-1*64 Lorenzo the Magnificent .... 1448-1492 Expulsion of the... | |
 | Clayton Sedgwick Cooper - 1923 - 400 pàgines
...Michelangelo wrote the following inscription : Sleep is sweet, yet more sweet it is to be of stone, while misery and wrong endure. Not to see, not to...is my joy. So wake me not. Ah, speak in whispers! Italy possesses a magnetic virtue quite peculiar to herself. Siren-like she seems to sing to every... | |
 | Clayton Sedgwick Cooper - 1923 - 378 pàgines
...Michelangelo wrote the following inscription : Sleep is sweet, yet more sweet it is to be of stone, while misery and wrong endure. Not to see, not to...is my joy. So wake me not. Ah, speak in whispers! Italy possesses a magnetic virtue quite peculiar to herself. Siren-like she seems to sing to every... | |
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This is the sleep of exhaustion, the dull lethargy of an overtaxed being who has sunk down and rests inert. It is called Night, and Michael Angelo has written on the pedestal, " Sleep is sweet, and yet more sweet is it to be of stone while misery and... 