Leonora D'Orco: A Historical Romance ...T. Cautley Newby, 1857 |
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Leonora D'Orco: A Historical Romance (Classic Reprint) George Payne Rainsford James Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
Leonora D'Orco: A Historical Romance (Classic Reprint) George Payne Rainsford James Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
answered Antonio answered De Vitry answered Ramiro arms asked Bayard beautiful better Bianca Maria Blanche Marie Buondoni Carlo Visconti Charles condottieri contadino Count of Rovera cousin danger Duke Duke of Milan enemy exclaimed eyes face fancy father fear feel Ferrara Francesco Sforza French Galeazzo gates gazed Giovanozzo girl Giulio give hand head heard heart horse hour Italian Italy King of France king's lady lances Leonora light Lombardy look lord Lorenzo de Medici Lorenzo Visconti Ludovic the Moor Ludovico Sforza majesty Mardocchi Milan murmured never night noble old count passed Pavia poison prince Ramiro d'Orco replied Antonio replied Lorenzo rode Romagna round Sacchi seemed servants Sforza sire sleep smile snake-stone soldiers soon speak spoke sweet swered sword tell terrace Terrail things thought tion tone turned Vigevano Villa Rovera voice window words young king youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 6 - the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries.
Seite 81 - neither of them acted on the offensive, besieged any town, or gave the other
Seite 80 - the society of my enemies, and wish that I had been defeated
Seite 84 - for ambition. A man might raise himself to a certain degree by subservience to some powerful prince, but he must continue to serve that prince, or he fell, and would never aspire to independent domination where hereditary power was recognized by the people, and lay at the foundation of all acknowledged authority. It was
Seite 97 - at first seemed to stand entirely on the defensive; but soon his blood grew hot, and, in answer to his adversary's lunge, he lunged again; but the other held a dagger in his left hand, and with it easily parried the blade. The next pass she saw
Seite 6 - The resurrection of art—the recovery of letters—the new birth of science, marked out the age as one of extraordinary development; but the state of society from which all these bright things sprang—flowers rising from a
Seite 276 - He who takes all, is rarely blessed; The sweetest things turn soonest sour, When we abuse our power. Oft have I wept for joys too soon possessed. What lessons, then, from
Seite 85 - authority, to raise himself to independent rule, or to that station which was only attached to a superior by the thin and
Seite 97 - sword in hand, defending himself against a man apparently much more powerful than himself. For a moment or two she gazed, bewildered,
Seite 276 - In sweet and bitter drops distil, For from ourselves our fate does mostly flow. Fair skies to him who steers his