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armor Baldassarre Bardi Bardo believe Bernardo del Nero Bratti carried Cennini Church conscious crucifix dark Divine door Duomo ears eyes face father feel felt Florence Florentine Francesco Frate French Girolamo glance gone Gonfaloniere Greek hair hand head heart husband knew less light Lillo lips live loggia look Lorenzo Luigi Pulci Madonna mantle Maso Medicean Medici Messer Bernardo mind monks Monna Brigida Monna Lisa morning Nello's never Niccolò Niccolò Macchiavelli Niccolò Ridolfi once Palazzo Vecchio passed paused perhaps Piagnone Piazza Piero Capponi Piero di Cosimo preaching prisoners quattrino ring Romola round Rucellai San Marco Savonarola scholar seemed sense sight Signoria silence smiling soul speak Spini stood stranger street strong tell Tessa things thou thought tion Tito Tito's tone turned vision voice wait walk wish woman words young
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Page 227 - Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them ; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.
Page 459 - The law was sacred. Yes, but rebellion might be sacred too. It flashed upon her mind that the problem before her was essentially the same as that which had lain before Savonarola — the problem where the sacredness of obedience ended, and where the sacredness of rebellion began. To her, as to him, there had come one of those moments in life when the soul must dare to act on its own warrant, not only without external law to appeal to, but in the face of a law which is not unarmed with Divine lightnings...
Page 118 - Christianity, is still felt by the mass of mankind simply as a vague fear at anything which is called wrong-doing. Such terror of the unseen is so far above mere sensual cowardice that it will annihilate that cowardice: it is the initial recognition of a moral law restraining desire, and checks the hard bold scrutiny of imperfect thought into obligations which can never be proved to have any sanctity in the absence of feeling. "It is good...
Page 164 - But our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never : they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness ; and that dreadful vitality of deeds was pressing hard on Tito for the first time.
Page 234 - It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out for sacrifice to Jupiter, to chalk the dark spots, and give the offering a false show of unblemished whiteness. Let us fling away the chalk, and boldly say, — the victim is spotted, but it is not therefore in vain that his mighty heart is laid on the altar of men's highest hopes.
Page 97 - Romola with that majestic simplicity of hers : he felt for the first time, without defining it to himself, that loving awe in the presence of noble womanhood, which is perhaps something like the worship paid of old to a great nature-goddess, who was not all-knowing, but whose life and power were something deeper and more primordial than knowledge.
Page 482 - ... made her trust in him seem to have been a purblind delusion. She spoke almost with bitterness. "Do you, then, know so well what will further the coming of God's kingdom, father, that you will dare to despise the plea of mercy — of justice — of faithfulness to your own teaching ? Has the French King, then, brought renovation to Italy? Take care, father, lest your enemies have some reason when they say that in your visions of what will further God's kingdom you see only what will strengthen...
Page 100 - If that were certain, could he, Tito, see the price of the gems lying before him, and say, "I will stay at Florence, where I am fanned by soft airs of promised love and prosperity; I will not risk myself for his sake "? No, surely not, if it were certain. But nothing could be farther from certainty. The galley had been taken by a Turkish vessel on its way to Delos: that was known by the report of the companion galley, which had escaped. But there had been resistance, and...
Page 102 - And he had been docile, pliable, quick of apprehension, ready to acquire : a very bright lovely boy, a youth of even splendid grace, who seemed quite without vices, as if that beautiful form represented a vitality so exquisitely poised and balanced that it could know no uneasy desires, no unrest — a radiant presence for a lonely man to have won for himself.
Page 219 - Calvo, close to his own. The two men looked at each other, silent as death: Baldassarre, with dark fierceness and a tightening grip of the soiled worn hands on the velvet-clad arm; Tito, with cheeks and lips all bloodless, fascinated by terror. It seemed a long while to them — it was but a moment. The first sound Tito heard was the short laugh of Piero di Cosimo, who stood close by him and was the only person that could see his face. " Ha, ha! I know what a ghost should be now." "This is another...