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By far the larger portion of this last class and several instances in the second it seems most reasonable to refer to the habit of quoting from memory. A very remarkable case of combination is found in 36 BC, where a single quotation is made up of a cento of no less than six separate passages taken from all three Synoptic Gospels and in the most broken order.
In addition to which, though a king, he was a bit of a screw, and we couldn't agree upon terms. This, observed Jawleyford, 'is a vase of the Cinque Cento period a very fine thing; and this, laying his hand on the crown of a much frizzed, barber's-window-looking bust, 'of course you know? 'No, I don't, replied Sponge. 'No! exclaimed Jawleyford, in astonishment. 'No, repeated Sponge.
'Signor Calvotti, he said, reseating himself, 'I shall ask you to do me a favour. You know Grammont and you know his friends. He will listen to you where he will not look at me. Will you do me the favour to speak for me to ask him to pay me? I thought I saw a way to be rid of him. 'How much does he owe you? I asked him. 'Cento franchi, he answered. 'Very good. Bring me pen, ink, and paper.
His work speaks to the moral sense more directly and more powerfully than that of any one, so directly and so powerfully, indeed, that we whose physical senses are dull, and whose moral sense is acute, are moved by Michael Angelo, although the rest of the cinque cento culture remain a closed book to us. It is difficult, this conjuring with the unrecoverable past, so rashly done by us all.
Shorthouse the author, a believer in, a champion was of two-fold or dual cosmos: his colour sense being susceptible to and wrought upon in singular consular consistence with the effulgent dogmas of its creed, and in alliance with the spirit of the cinque cento Italian Renaissance Schools of Painting and Architecture.
The superstition, also, with which he was so much tainted, carries along with it some image of pusillanimity; and the excess of his penitence for the murder of Clytus is also a testimony of the unevenness of his courage. All we perform is no other than a cento, as a man may say, of several pieces, and we would acquire honour by a false title.
There were other Roman ladies in the room only inferior in rank and importance to the Princess Tarpeia-Cinque Cento; and in the course of the evening, at their earnest request, they were made acquainted with Lothair, for it cannot be said he was presented to them.
He mixed with them a thousand illustrations from his own life, from other lives he had known, from history and fiction, and above all from the annals of the time that was dear to him beyond all periods, the Italian cinque- cento.
Nor would Ercole send the escort to Rome for the bride until he had in his hands the Bull of investiture in the fiefs of Cento and Pieve, which, with 100,000 ducats, constituted Lucrezia's dowry. Altogether a most unromantic affair.
This giant structure contains several large chambers, their roofs supported by numerous columns. To view this reservoir we are compelled to descend a flight of steps. Not far from the before-mentioned building we come upon the "Cento Camarelle," a prison consisting of a multitude of small cells.
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