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Their merriment was so infectious that it extended to the poor giantess, who had been very pensive all day at the prospect of losing her good place, and who now raised her voice in the grand aria from "Orfeo," and made the kitchen ring with the passionate demand "Che faro senza Eurydice?"
Senza Moccolo! Senza Moccolo! Beautiful women, standing up in coaches, pointing in derision at extinguished lights, and clapping their hands, as they pass on, crying, 'Senza Moccolo!
She was a Genoese, and proud as the snow. Why did Giuliano love her? Did he love her, indeed? He was bewitched then, for she was cold, and a brazen creature in spite of it. How dare she bare her neck so! Oh! 'twas Genoese. "Uomini senza fede e donne senza vergogna," they quoted as they ran.
Art shall engage her thoughts in the music-room, and to Gluck and "Alcestes" the hour belongs! The queen struck the keys more firmly, and began to play the noble "Love's Complaint," of Gluck's opera. Unconsciously her lips opened, and with loud voice and intense passionate expression, she sang the words, "Oh, crudel, non posso in vere, tu lo sui, senza dite!"
I have seen in the depths of her soul such treasures that the beautiful line of Dante on eternal happiness, which I heard her interpreting to you the other day, "Senza brama sicura ricchezza," seems as if made for her. She has talked to me of her career; she has related her life, showing me how love, that object of our prayers, our dreams, has ever eluded her.
Christina's dark brown eyes swept him from head to foot. He was like his pictures, she thought and as good to look at. He was introduced to her mother. They sat down, talking, and presently Miss Channing sang "Che faro senza Euridice." Eugene felt as if she were singing to him. Her cheeks were flushed and her lips red.
Such has been the case in France; and the result justifies the Italian satire: "Un albero senza fruta Baretta senza testa Governo che non resta." Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen Princesse de Lamballe The Parisian Bonne Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette Beaumarchais The Reveille Madame Adelaide as Diana The Bastille Opening of The States General
"What!" said she, "without promising the servants a share without even feeing them, to let the signors see thy merchandise! As well have flung it into Tiber." "Well-a-day!" sighed Gerard. "Then how is an artist to find a patron? for artists are poor, not rich." "By going to some city nobler and not so greedy as this," said Teresa. "La corte Romana non vuol' pecora senza lana."
In the allegorical picture of the School of Design, by Carlo Maratti, where the students are led through their various studies, in the opening clouds above the academy are seen the Graces, hovering over their pupils, with an inscription they must often recollect Senza di noi ogni fatica è vana.
And the boy, never regarding him at all, strolled on with the mellow taste of the fruit he had just enjoyed in his mouth, and presently, as if inspired thereby, awoke the slumbering echoes of the street with his high, fluting young treble, singing, "Che faro senza Eurydice!"
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