Writings, Volume 9Houghton Mifflin, 1907 |
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... force of rage in his limbs , had sprung forward , and the dagger had flashed out . In the next moment the dagger had snapped in two , and Baldassarre , under the parrying force of Tito's arm , had fallen back on the straw , clutching ...
... force of rage in his limbs , had sprung forward , and the dagger had flashed out . In the next moment the dagger had snapped in two , and Baldassarre , under the parrying force of Tito's arm , had fallen back on the straw , clutching ...
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... force of a substantial threat . When he had come down to speak to Baldassarre , he had said to himself that if his effort at reconciliation failed , things would only be as they had been before . The first glance of his mind was ...
... force of a substantial threat . When he had come down to speak to Baldassarre , he had said to himself that if his effort at reconciliation failed , things would only be as they had been before . The first glance of his mind was ...
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... force of which they should for one year choose all magis- trates , and set the frame of government in order . And the people shouted their assent , and felt themselves the electors to the twenty . This kind of " parliament ” was a very ...
... force of which they should for one year choose all magis- trates , and set the frame of government in order . And the people shouted their assent , and felt themselves the electors to the twenty . This kind of " parliament ” was a very ...
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... force outside the palace which was gradually tending to give the vague desires of that ma- jority the character of a determinate will . That force was the preaching of Savonarola . Impelled partly by the spiritual necessity that was ...
... force outside the palace which was gradually tending to give the vague desires of that ma- jority the character of a determinate will . That force was the preaching of Savonarola . Impelled partly by the spiritual necessity that was ...
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... force of outward symbols by which our active life is knit together so as to make an inexorable external identity for us , not to be shaken by our wavering consciousness , gave a strange effect to this simple movement towards taking off ...
... force of outward symbols by which our active life is knit together so as to make an inexorable external identity for us , not to be shaken by our wavering consciousness , gave a strange effect to this simple movement towards taking off ...
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Baldassarre Bardi believe Bernardo del Nero Bernardo Rucellai Bratti Carnival carried Ceccone Church conscious Council dark daughter dead Divine Dolfo Spini Domenico door Duomo enter eyes face father feeling felt fire Florence Florentine Fra Girolamo Francesco Franciscan Frate Girolamo glance godfather gone Gonfaloniere hand hatred head heart husband knew light Lillo lips live loggia looked Madonna mantle Maso Mediceans Melema ment Messer mind monks Monna Brigida Monna Lisa morning Naldo ness never Niccolò Niccolò Macchiavelli Niccolò Ridolfi once palace Palazzo Vecchio party passed paused perhaps Piagnone piazza Piero Piero di Cosimo Ponte Vecchio Pope Romola round Salvestro San Marco Savona Savonarola seemed sight Signoria silence smiling sort soul speak stood street strong tell Tessa things thought tion Tito Tito's tone Tornabuoni turned Valori voice walked wife woman words
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Page 267 - 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 422 - But therefore he may the more fitly be called a martyr by his fellow men to all time. For power rose against him not because of his sins, but because of his greatness — not because he sought to deceive the world, but because he sought to make it noble. And through that greatness of his he endured a double agony: not only the reviling, and the torture, and the death-throe, but the agony of sinking from the vision of glorious achievement into that deep shadow where he could only say, "I count as...
Page 371 - ... of the prison. The struggle now was, who should get first in the stream that rushed up the narrow street to see the Prophet carried back in ignominy to the Piazza where he had braved it yesterday — who should be in the best place for reaching his ear with insult, nay, if possible, for smiting him and kicking him. This was not difficult for some of the armed Compagnacci who were not prevented from mixing themselves with the guards. When Savonarola felt himself dragged and pushed along in the...
Page 87 - Yes," said Giannozzo Pucci, laying his hand on Tito's shoulder, " the fact is, Tito mio, you can help us better than if you were Ulysses himself, for I am convinced that Ulysses often made himself disagreeable. To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath. And there is not a soul in Florence who could undertake a business like this journey to Eome, for example, with the same safety that you can.
Page 112 - I did not suppose he was a malefactor. I meant, that if he were a malefactor, your place would be in the prison beside him. My daughter, if the cross comes to you as a wife, you must carry it as a wife. You may say, 'I will forsake my husband,' but you cannot cease to be a wife.
Page 322 - Slowly at first, then faster and faster, that fatal demand had been swelling in Savonarola's ear, provoking a response, outwardly in the declaration that at the fitting time the miracle would come ; inwardly in the faith — not unwavering, for what faith is so ? — • that if the need for...