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admiration affection Agrippa Amicia appeared artist Beatrice beauty became become better breathed bright brought called cause child close command Count dark daughter deep delight desire Doge doubt early Emperor executed expression eyes face fair fame fancy father feelings followed fortune friends genius Giulio give grace hand happy head heard heart honour hope hour Italy kind knew known lady learned less light live look maiden manner Mark means memory merit mind Nature never noble obtained once Painter painting palace passed passion pencil perhaps person Petigliano picture poetry portrait present Queen quitted received rich scarcely seemed seen Seigniory Senate side Signore smile song speak spirit success tell thing thought tion Titian took touched true truth turned Vecelli Venetian Venice wonder young youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 172 - It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes; All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance; And so am I for Phebe.
Pagina 63 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Pagina 166 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Pagina 107 - So the foundations of his mind were laid. In such communion, not from terror free, While yet a child, and long before his time, Had he perceived the presence and the power Of greatness...
Pagina 88 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise...
Pagina 172 - Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love. It is to be all made of sighs and tears ; — It is to be all made of faith and service : — It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion, and all made of wishes ; All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance.
Pagina 33 - A lovely Lady garmented in light From her own beauty : deep her eyes, as are Two openings of unfathomable night Seen through a Temple's cloven roof: her hair Dark : the dim brain whirls dizzy with delight, Picturing her form ; her soft smiles shone afar, And her low voice was heard like love, and drew All living things towards this wonder new.
Pagina 113 - Love ! I will tell thee what it is to love ! It is to build with human thoughts a shrine, Where hope sits brooding like a beauteous dove ; Where time seems young — and life a thing divine. All tastes, all pleasures, all desires combine To consecrate this sanctuary of bliss. Above, the stars in shroudless beauty shine; Around, the streams their flowery margins kiss: And if there's heaven on earth, that heaven is surely this.
Pagina 73 - s as good as t' other. XLm And then there was — but why should I go on, Unless the ladies should go off? — there was Indeed a certain fair and fairy one, Of the best class, and better than her class, — Aurora Raby, a young star who shone O'er Life, too sweet an image for such glass, A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded...
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Titian, a Romance of Venice Titian, a Romance of Venice, Robert Shelton Mackenzie |
| Auteur | Robert Shelton Mackenzie |
| gepubliceerd | 1843 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Oxford University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 3 okt 2006 |
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