The Life of Michael Angelo Buonarroti: With Translations of Many of His Poems and Letters. Also Memoirs of Savonarola, Raphael, and Vittoria Colonna, Volume 2

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Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858

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Pagina 146 - In this was manifested the love of GOD towards us, because that GOD sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved GOD, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Pagina 168 - THE prayers I make will then be sweet indeed If Thou the spirit give by which I pray : My unassisted heart is barren clay, That of its native self can nothing feed...
Pagina 130 - Heaven-born, the Soul a heaven- ward course must hold; Beyond the visible world She soars to seek (For what delights the sense is false and weak) Ideal Form, the universal mould.
Pagina 29 - A twofold influence, — only to be felt — A light, a darkness, mingling each with each ; Both, and yet neither. There, from age to age, Two ghosts are sitting on their sepulchres. That is the Duke Lorenzo. Mark him well. He meditates, his head upon his hand. What from beneath his helm-like bonnet scowls ? Is it a face, or but an eyeless skull ? Tis lost in shade ; yet, like the basilisk, It fascinates, and is intolerable.
Pagina 328 - I have taken another course, one more suited to my abilities, and to the taste of the times in which I live. Yet however unequal I feel myself" to that attempt, were I now to begin the world again, I would tread in the steps of that great master : to kiss the hem of his garment, to catch the slightest of his perfections, would be glory and distinction enough for an ambitious man.
Pagina 247 - And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.
Pagina 31 - La Notte che tu vedi in si dolci atti Dormir, fu da un Angelo scolpita In questo sasso, e perche dorme, ha vita : Destala, se nol credi, e parleratti.' To which Michelangelo replied : — ' Grato m' e 'I sonno, e piu 1' esser di sasso, Mentre che il danno e la vergogna dura ; Non veder, non sentir, m...
Pagina 257 - ... ordered one of his attendants to place him under a tree, with his face towards the enemy; then fixing his eyes on the guard of his sword, which he held up instead of a cross, he addressed his prayers to God, and in this posture, which became his character both as a soldier and as a Christian, he calmly waited the approach of death.
Pagina 142 - O durezza, o fortuna, o gran disdegno Del mio mal colpa, o mio destino, o sorte, Se dentro del tuo cor morte e pietate Porti in un tempo, e che...
Pagina 141 - YES ! hope may with my strong desire keep pace, And I be undeluded, unbetrayed ; For if of our affections none find grace In sight of Heaven, then, wherefore hath God made The world which we inhabit ? Better plea Love cannot have, than that in loving thee...

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