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And several cows and women have had still-born calves this Quaresima; and for the bad eggs that have been broken since the Carnival, nobody has counted them. Ah! a great man a great politician a greater poet than Dante. And yet the cupola didn't fall, only the lantern. Che miracolo!" A sharp and lengthened "Pst!" was suddenly heard darting across the pelting storm of gutturals.
"Buon' Dio, ecco miracolo!" said Castracane hoarsely, and kissed again. Again his nestling companion gave no sign but a quiver. Castracane surveyed the stars. "A miracle has certainly happened," he said. "I feel very queer. My head swims, fingers and toes tingle; I seem to have hot lead in my legs. It may be that I am empty. I think it is a miracle; but as yet I see no angel."
Placed as the Assunta now is in the immediate neighbourhood of one of Tintoretto's best-preserved masterpieces, the Miracolo del Schiavo, it undergoes an ordeal from which, in the opinion of many a modern connoisseur and lover of Venetian art, it does not issue absolutely triumphant.
To-day it is nothing, having suffered restoration, beside the other violations. Within, Verrocchio was buried, and in the Cappella del Miracolo, where in the thirteenth century a priest found the chalice stained with Christ's blood, is the beautiful altar by Mino da Fiesole.
Meanwhile, Fra Paolo was still the theme among the senators at large in the Council Chamber. "Il miracolo del suo secolo," they called him, as they rehearsed the opinions of the learned men of their age in every field of science.
"Why not? il miracolo e autenticato." "No!" said his companion, "autorizzato! The distinction is, that the church authorizes the declaration of some lies as miraculous, but declines to make herself responsible for the reality of others!" They are much better than most of our sacred poetry, as it is strangely miscalled, which is frequently neither poetry nor common sense:
Ogni dolcezza, ogni pensiero umile Nasee nel core a chi parlar la sente; Ond' e beato chi prima la vide. Quel ch'ella par quand' un poco sorride, Non si pub dicer, ne tener a mente, Si e nuovo miracolo gentile." DANTE: la Vita Nuova. By that delightful morning when the hay-ricks at Stone Court were scenting the air quite impartially, as if Mr.
Quella che fu pur dianzi Sì dalla tema del morire oppressa, Fatta allor di repente A le parole di Mirtillo invitta, Con intrepido cor così rispose: 'Pensi dunque, Mirtillo, Di dar col tuo morire Vita a chi di te vive? O miracolo ingiusto!
Even Lady Fitz-pompey said 'Brava! As she proceeded the audience grew quite frantic. It was agreed on all hands that miracles had recommenced. Each air was sung only to call forth fresh exclamations of 'Miracolo! and encores were as unmerciful as an usurper. Amid all this rapture the young Duke was not silent.
They are forever talking about it to us, to me in particular, just as the old women in Naples cry to Saint Januarius, 'Faccia gialluta, fa o miracolo, Yellow face, perform thy miracle, so our beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyes, when will you bring forth your surprise? At the same time our parents keep writing to us. Pressure on both sides.
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