The History of Italy: From the Fall of the Western Empire to the Commencement of the Wars of the French Revolution, Volum 1G. B. Whittaker, 1825 |
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Pàgina 55 - ... birth, Venice, the eldest child of Liberty. She was a maiden city, bright and free, No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And, when she took unto herself a mate, She must espouse the everlasting sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those titles vanish, and that strength decay ? Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final day. Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.
Pàgina 27 - He stands alone like a beacon upon a waste, or a rock in the broad ocean.
Pàgina 273 - Oh, thou Pisa ! shame Of all the people, who their dwelling make In that fair region, where the Italian voice Is heard ; since that thy...
Pàgina 64 - The author, Count Daru, has enjoyed opportunities for consulting a far greater number of authentic documents than any preceding writer on Venetian History. He had not only free access to the secret archives after their removal to Paris, but his efforts seem to have been indefatigable in collecting such further materials, as the great libraries of the continent could afford. He has thus accumulated notices in his appendix, on nearly four thousand manuscripts, above half of which he...
Pàgina 363 - Forum Boarium', and a corner of the Palatine. The Savelli were at the Tomb of Metella. The Corsi had fortified the Capitol. If the churches were not spared, it is certain the pagan monuments would be protected by no imagined sanctity, and we find that the Corsi family had occupied the Basilica of St.
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Pàgina 64 - ... any preceding writer on Venetian History. He had not only free access to the secret archives after their removal to Paris, but his efforts seem to have been indefatigable in collecting such further materials, as the great libraries of the continent could afford. He has thus accumulated notices in his appendix, on nearly four thousand manuscripts, above half of which he declares that he has personally inspected.
Pàgina 41 - To die without allotting a portion of worldly wealth to pious uses was accounted almost like suicide, or a refusal of the last sacraments ; and hence intestacy passed for a sort of fraud upon the church, which she punished by taking the administration of the deceased's effects into her own hands.