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Un uom ti si prosterna Innamorato al suolo Volgi ver me la cruna Di tua pupilla bruna, Vaga come la luna, Ardente come il sole. "Here," says Boito, "is a myth both beautiful and deep.
Hope much wished to have had included in the list the work called 'Pupilla Oculi, a treatise on moral theology by John de Burgh, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge about the year 1385, which was much in use among the clergy before the Reformation. Mr. John of the Cross and of St. I find in the Badeley correspondence a very interesting letter of Mr.
Hope Mr. Newman resigns St. Mary's Correspondence of Mr. Newman and Mr. Hope on the 'Lives of the English Saints' Mr. Ward's Condemnation Mr. Hope sees the 'Shadow of the Cross' through the Press Engaged with 'Scripture Prints, 'Pupilla Oculi, &c. Lady G. Fullerton's Recollections of J. R. Hope He proposes to make a Retreat at Littlemore.
At first his language was cool; he used an artist's touch, as if painting a picture. Warming up by degrees, he entered into details of personal history, so that of a sudden his own figure appeared in the centre of the canvas, filling it with life. He spoke of his mother, the celebrated actress, for whom her admirer Goldoni had written his admirable comedy, La Pupilla.
As soon as I observed any intention on their part of making sheep's eyes at me, I would paint them looking in another direction than mine, and then, at the least movement of the pupilla, would say, "I am doing the eyes now." This vexed them a little, of course, but my mother, who was always present, and whom I had taken into my confidence, was secretly amused.
Hope's dated February 28, 1843, about the 'Pupilla Oculi, its history and authority. The book had been cited by Mr. Badeley in the Court of Queen's Bench, and by others in the House of Lords, in the case of the Queen v. Willis.
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