The Life of Lorenzo De' Medici, Called the Magnificent, Volume 1 |
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Page 289 - Adoration. 1 LET one loud song of praise arise To God, whose goodness ceaseless flows ; Who dwells enthroned above the skies, And life and breath on all bestows. 2 Let all of good this bosom fires, To him, sole good, give praises due ; Let all the truth himself inspires, Unite to sing him only true. 3 In ardent adoration joined, Obedient to thy holy will, Let all our faculties combined, Thy just commands, O God ! fulfil.
Page 262 - Ah ! pearly drops, that pouring from those eyes, Spoke the dissolving cloud of soft desire ! What time cold sorrow chill'd the genial fire, ' Struck the fair urns, and bade the waters rise.' ». ' Soft down those cheeks, where native crimson vies With ivory whiteness, see the crystals throng ; As some clear river winds its stream along, Bathing the flowers of pale and purple dyes, Whilst Love rejoicing in the amorous shower, Stands like some bird, that, after sultry heats, Enjoys the drops, and shakes...
Page 204 - Circumstat populus murmure dissono ; Circumstant juvenem purpurei patres ; Causa vincimus, et robore militum ; Hac stat Juppiter, hac favet. Quare, O cum misera quid tibi Nenia, "* Si nil proficimus ? quin potius gravis Absterisse bono lastitias die Audes nubila pectoris.
Page 187 - ... that the building was falling in ; but no sooner was it understood that Lorenzo was in danger, than several of the youth of Florence formed themselves into a body, and receiving him into the midst of them, conducted him to his house, making a circuitous turn from the church, lest he should meet with the dead body of his brother.
Page 239 - Aeneas in view, but in the rest of his poem there is little resemblance to any antecedent production. Compared with the Aeneid, adds Mr. Roscoe, " it is a piece of grand Gothic architecture at the side of a beautiful Roman temple...
Page 37 - The example of the Roman pontiff was preceded or imitated by a Florentine merchant, who governed the republic without arms and without a title. Cosmo of Medicis was the father of a line of princes, whose name and age are almost synonymous with the restoration of learning: his credit was ennobled into fame ; his riches were dedicated to the service of mankind ; he corresponded at once with Cairo and London : and a cargo of Indian spices and Greek books was often imported in the same vessel.
Page 269 - È una donna * di statura immensa: la cima de' capelli al ciel par monti: formata e vestita è di nebbia densa; abita il sommo de' più alti monti. Se, i nugoli guardando, un forma e pensa nòve forme veder d'animai pronti *, che '1 vento muta e poi di novo finge: così Amor questa vana dipinge.