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Wherefore Francia, half dead with terror at the beauty of the picture, which lay before his eyes challenging comparison with those by his own hand that he saw around him, felt all confounded, and had it placed with great diligence in that chapel of S. Giovanni in Monte for which it was destined; and taking to his bed in a few days almost beside himself, thinking that he was now almost of no account in his art in comparison with the opinion held both by himself and by others, he died of grief and melancholy, so some believe, overtaken by the same fate, through contemplating too attentively that most lifelike picture of Raffaello's, as befell Fivizzano from feasting his eyes with his own beautiful Death, about which the following epigram was written: Me veram pictor divinus mente recepit; Admota est operi deinde perita manus.
'Audiit, et voti Phoebus succedere partem Mente dedit; partem volucres dispersit in auras; which, as he added, 'is weel rendered into English metre by my friend Bangour: Ae half the prayer wi' Phoebus grace did find, The t'other half he whistled down the wind. The conflicting passions and exhausted feelings of Waverley had resigned him to late but sound repose.
Dante knew it when he talked of 'quella que imparadisa la mia mente. Paradise is here, visible and tangible by mortal eyes and hands, whenever self is lost in loving, whenever the narrow limits of personality are beaten down by the inrush of the Divine Spirit. The saddest moment in the lives of these two persons whose history we have followed for so long was over and done with.
'He came to my country sudden, said Paoli in his broken English, 'and he fetched me some letters of recommending him. And I supposed, in my mente he was in the privacy one espy; for I look away from him to my other companies, and when I look back to him I behold it in his hands his tablet, and one pencil.
This gave me so much ease, that I began to recover a little life, but so leisurely and by so small advances, that my first sentiments were much nearer the approaches of death than life: "Perche, dubbiosa ancor del suo ritorno, Non s'assicura attonita la mente."
These last are the only ones that can really offend, and only according to whether they preexisted as a motive in mente, or arose solely per accidens in the heat of the discussion, if there really exist "
Sect. 6. Fourthly, Sacred significant ceremonies devised by man are to be reckoned among those images forbidden in the second commandment. Polanus saith, that omnis figura illicita is forbidden in the second commandment. The Professors of Leyden call it imaginem quamlibet, sive mente conceptam, sive manu effictam.
la rondinella presso la mattina, e che la mente nostra pellegrina più dalla, carne e men da' pensier presa, alle sue vision quasi è divina. A few times only did I succeed in falling asleep with unbroken consciousness. This occurred when I was very tired and fell quickly into a deep sleep.
For the causes which forced Greek sculpture along the line leading to Praxiteles and Lysippus were not yet at work; and had other forces, say, a preference for stone work instead of clay and bronze work, a habit of Persian or Gaulish garments, of Lydian effeminate life instead of Dorian athleticism, supervened, had satraps ordered rock-reliefs of battles instead of burghers ordering brazen images of boxers and runners, Praxiteles and Lysippus might have remained in mente Dei, if, indeed, even there.
Dante knew it when he talked of 'quella que imparadisa la mia mente. Paradise is here, visible and tangible by mortal eyes and hands, whenever self is lost in loving, whenever the narrow limits of personality are beaten down by the inrush of the Divine Spirit. The saddest moment in the lives of these two persons whose history we have followed for so long, was over and done with.
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