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In spite of our abhorrence of the destruction and construction which have made modern Rome so wholesome and delightful, most of us had our habitations in the new quarters; but certain pleasanter of the older streets, like the Via Sistina, Via del Babuino, Via Capo le Case, Via Gregoriana, were our sojourn or our resort.
The liberal views of the English Canning gave Metternich both solicitude and disgust; and he did all he could to undermine the influence of Capo D'Istrias, the Greek diplomatist, with his imperial master the Czar. He hated any man who was politically enlightened, and destroyed him if he could.
Vincent, for instance, the Negroes one evening rushed shrieking out of a boiling-house, 'Oh! Massa Robert, we all killed. Dar one great jumby-bird come in a hole a-top a roof. Oh! Massa Robert, you no go in; you killed, we killed, etc. etc. Massa Robert went in, and could see no bird. 'Ah, Massa Robert, him darky him eye, but him see you all da same. You killed, we killed, etc. Da capo.
They had hoped to see some part of the loan expended in the formation of roads, and in establishing regular packets to communicate with the islands. But their performances were confined to repairing the road from Nauplia to Argos, which had been made by Capo d'Istria.
He is so fond of his art that in all the world there is no attraction like it for him. He runs to his easel at sunrise, and sits before it caressing his picture all day till nightfall. He takes leave of it sadly when dark comes, spends the night in a Life Academy, and begins next morning da capo.
"Smellie Very common noun, absurd person, singular back number, tutor gender, objectionable case governed by the word I," and so da capo. She was the Compleat Governess, on paper, and all that a person entrusted with the training of young children should not be, in reality. She also had the warm and unanimous witness of the children at Monksmead that she was a Beast.
Thus many hours of anxious care and labour proved of no avail. I had to begin again and proceed da capo.
"No, you little witch, you can't make a false note. But how do you suppose I can keep hold of the tail of the Air, if you send me chasing after it through so many capricious variations? Now begin again, da capo" The lesson was recommenced, but soon ran riot again.
Capo di Monti, overlooking the town landing-place, was also a favorite resting-place, and gave some bright pictures of native life. By an amusing practice of giving their king a fine old mendicant with a lame leg and his daily-growing train a grano a day at the gate, Cooper and his family on their excursions were freed from an army of beggars.
It lies perfectly shut in by the circle of mountains, the two headlands in which they jut into the sea, and the blue curve of the bay. It is only by climbing to the summit of the Capo Nero or the Capo Verde that one sees the broken outline of the coast towards Genoa or the dim forms of the Estrelles beyond Cannes. Nowhere does the outer world seem more strangely far-off and unreal.
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