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These are the heights from which, as tradition has it, Florence descended, the people of which Dante said "Che discese da Fiesole ab antico, E tiene ancor del monte e del macigno," meaning it in anger. But it is true, and truer, in the good sense also.
Ovid is brisker and more obviously to the purpose; but Ariosto gives the ponderousness and dreary triumph of the monster. The comparison of the fly and the mastiff is in the same higher and more epic taste. E quinci e quindi un solitario monte. Quivi il bramoso cavalier ritenne L'audace corso, e nel pratel discese." St. 113.
The priest's lips moved, formed words: "'Che discese da Fiesole ab antico." His imperturbable manner offered Gordon not the slightest opening; and he continued uncomfortably on his way. There was a quality about that thick, black-clad figure which cast a shadow over the cloudless day, it blunted the anticipated pleasure of his meeting with Meta Beggs.
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