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The picture that Mildred had elected to copy was Reynolds's angel heads. She looked at the brown gold of their hair, and wondered what combination of umber and sienna would produce it. She studied the delicate bloom of their cheeks, and wondered what mysterious proportions of white, ochre, and carmine she would have to use to obtain it. The bright blue and grey of the eyes frightened her.
My heart will go forth from Sienna as free as it came, for I have no hope of victory, and defeat would make me wretched." "Is it possible that you are amongst the despairing?" "Yes, and to that fact I owe my happiness." "It would be a pity for you if you found yourself mistaken." "Not such a pity as you may think, Madam. 'Carpe diem' is my motto.
She promised to take me everywhere. "Pray do not take the trouble," I replied. "I want to leave Sienna with the feeling that you are the only lady to whom I have done homage, and that the Abbe Chiaccheri has been my only guide." The marchioness was flattered, and asked the abbe and myself to dine with her on the following day in a delightful house she had at a hundred paces from the town.
There are two grand routes from Home to Florence: the one is by Perugia, the other passes through Sienna.
On the death of Innocent IX, Aldobrandini was raised to the pontifical chair , which he occupied during thirteen years. Camillo Borghese was a native of Rome, whose family were originally from Sienna. Clement VIII called him to a seat in the conclave in 1598.
"I hope you can speak French madam?" I began. "Yes, and a little Italian too." "I congratulate myself on having you for my travelling companion." "I think you should congratulate me." "I heard you came to Sienna on horseback." "Yes, but I will never do such a foolish thing again." "I think your husband would have been wise to sell his horse and buy a carriage."
The army being thus reduced, without a leader, and disorder prevailing in every department, the duke of Calabria, who was with his forces near Sienna, resolved to attack them immediately.
The columns, including the huge Sienna shafts before the arches and the Tower of Jewels, are Roman Corinthian, with opulent capitals, though not too florid when used in a work of such vast extent. Most Roman of all is the great Column of Progress, at the north end of the court. McKim, Mead and White of New York, the architects, had the Piazza of St.
Twenty years ago I should have taken it for a good one, but now it's another thing, and if the bill is a good one, why did he not negotiate it at Sienna, Florence, or Leghorn?" "It may be that he had not the time; he was in such a hurry to be gone. Ah! if you knew all!" "I only want to know what you like to tell me, but I warn you again that what I say is no vague suspicion but hard fact."
Standing on the cliff one looks over the plain with Monte San Giuliano closing the view on the left and on the right the mountain promontory of Cofano, a great, isolated, solemn, grey rock, full of caves, sprinkled with green and splashed with raw sienna; between them, two or three kilometres away, is the sea which, I suppose, formerly covered the plain and washed the foot of the cliff.
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