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Titian's canvas, like most of the great altar-pieces of the middle time, was originally arched at the top; but the vandalism of a subsequent epoch has, as in the case of the Madonna di S. Niccola, now in the Vatican, made of this arch a square, thereby greatly impairing the majesty of the general effect.
As Di spoke, both the fashion-plates looked affectionately at the gray-gowned figure; but, being works of art, they were obliged to nip their feelings in the bud, and reserve their caresses till they returned to common life. "Put on your bonnet, and we'll leave you at Mrs. Lord's on our way.
To them the irony of the procurator presumably was lost. “King of the Jews!” they shouted. “Mâlkâ dî Jehudâje, come down from your cross!” It was a great festival, and as they jeered at Jesus they enjoyed themselves hugely. In their vast delight the voice of Stegas was drowned.
"Ya-as we do," answered Tenspot, "if yu hasn't dreamed about it, we do." "Yu wait; I wasn't dreamin', none whatever," assured Tex. "I saw it!" "Ya-as, I saw it too onct," replied Frenchy with sarcasm. "Went and lugged fifty pound of it all th' way to th' assay office took me two days! an' that there four-eyed cuss looks at it and snickers. Then he takes me by di' arm an' leads me to th' window.
It is an enormous mass of building enormous even among the huge structures for which Rome above all other cities is remarkable situated near the church of the Gesu and not far from the Piazza di Venezia.
At the time of the first recorded eruption Vesuvius appears to have consisted of only a single cone with a crater, now known as Monte di Somma, the central cone of eruption which now rises from within this outer ruptured casing not having been formed.
The cartoon, with his other things, remained in the possession of the goldsmith Giovanni di Goro, his friend, who died in the plague; and after that it fell into the hands of Piloto, who kept it spread out in his house for many years, showing it readily as a very rare work to every person of intelligence; but I do not know what became of it after the death of Piloto.
On the third day, the wind being abated, though still unfavourable, we reimbarked and rowed along shore, passing by Porto-mauricio, and Oneglia; then turning the promontory called Capo di Melle, we proceeded by Albenga, Finale, and many other places of inferior note.
He pulled a small book out of his pocket, ferreted among the leaves and then setting his eye near the page pointed out his beloved line: 'Pauper sum, pateor, fateor, quod Di dant fero. Which had been translated: 'I am poor, I confess; I bear it, and what the gods vouchsafe that I take' and on the broad margin of the book had written: 'Cicero sayeth: That one cannot sufficiently praise them that be patient having little: And Seneca: The first measure of riches is to have things necessary and, as ensueth therefrom, to be therewith content!
In such characters as Susanna in the "Nozze di Figaro," and Fidalma in Cimarosa's "Il Matrimonio Segreto," her talent for lyric comedy impressed the cognoscenti of London with irresistible power. She was fascinated by the ludicrous, and was wont to say that she was anxious to play the Duenna in "Il Barbiere" for the sake of the grotesque costume.
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