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Lorenzo, called the Magnificent, was head of the house of Medici, and first citizen of the proud Republic. He was himself an artist, a poet, and a philosopher; he loved the beautiful things of life, and had gathered about him a little court of men of genius. Florence at that time was also a great business city, and among the prominent merchant families was that of the Buonarotti.
The Gothic clusters of pillars springing up from the floor rise unbroken to the roof, and spread out like palm trees. The emblazoned coats of arms of the knights of the garter hanging all around on the pillars of the chapel, the beautiful carved ornaments like lace-work, and many other rare and lovely objects, make the royal chapel very magnificent.
"It is the ring my wife gave me when we were married," Manuel replied. "Then you must give it to me, dear Manuel." "No, no, I cannot part with it." "But it is beautiful, and I want it," Sesphra said. So Manuel gave him the ring. Now Sesphra began again to talk of matters not to be recorded.
The exposition of your troubles, and acknowledging of your infirmity, were first unto me a very mirror and glass wherein I beheld myself so rightly painted forth, that nothing could be more evident to my own eyes. The sympathy that flows through this beautiful passage comes out very strongly in another written in bodily illness.
There was another agreeable sight; the Spanish women, who were generally handsome, with an interesting character of expression in their faces, which is much heightened by their beautiful dark eyes and jet-black hair. Their dresses are remarkable for their neatness. The town of Santa Cruz stands near the sea, on a plain of about two miles square, at the foot of the mountains.
It was not an easy matter to find a Romeo for me, and in the emergency my father and mother even thought of my brother Henry's trying the part. He was in the first bloom of youth, and really might be called beautiful; and certainly, a few years later, might have been the very ideal of a Romeo. But he looked too young for the part, as indeed he was, being three years my junior.
There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny and for whose refined appreciation of the beautiful, more especially than for our own, had been set in order by God the great landscape-garden of the whole earth.
'No man whose soul is stained by fleshly desire shall render in art all that there is in a truly beautiful woman's face, said Wilderspin. 'I worked hard at imaginative painting; I worked for years and years, Mr. Aylwin, but with scant success. It shames me to say that I was at last discouraged.
Although the great visitation was too heavy for his flesh and blood to bear, his spirit was strengthened to drink this last cup of earthly trial with beautiful serenity and submission. It was strong enough to make his quivering lips to say, in distinct and audible utterance, and his closing eyes to pledge the truth and depth of the sentiment, "Thy will be done!"
And this Song of the Vine, This greeting of mine, The winds and the birds shall deliver To the Queen of the West, In her garlands dressed, On the banks of the Beautiful River. The Physical Geography of the Sea. By M. F. MAURY. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1857. Climatology of the United States and of the Temperate Latitudes of the North American Continent.
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