Girolamo SavonarolaMethuen, 1911 - 303 páginas |
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Página 89 - The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Página 282 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Página 293 - That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church ; . . . And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven...
Página 69 - Tyrants are incorrigible, because they are proud, because they love flattery, and because they will not restore ill-gotten gains. They leave all in the hands of bad ministers; they...
Página 15 - But it seems to me neither necessary to moralise at every turn in historical writing, nor becoming to adopt an attitude of lofty superiority over any one who ever played a prominent part in European affairs, nor charitable to lavish undiscriminating censure on any man.
Página 51 - E quanto sangue, cimè! tra noi s'aspetta, Se la tua man pietosa, Che di perdonar sempre si diletta, Non la riduce a quella Pace che fu quando era poverella.
Página 183 - ... my hosts and my treasure with which to disturb Italy ? Not by me is Italy disturbed, but I foretell that she will be disturbed. "I foretell that the scourge will be hastened by your sins. Thou unbelieving one, a mighty war shall strip thee of thy pomp and thy pride. A mighty pestilence shall make ye cast aside your vanities, O Women ; as for thee, thou murmuring populace, thy tongue shall be stilled by a great famine. Citizens, unless ye live in the fear of God, and love of free government, the...
Página 293 - Nor can these words apply to Peter alone, for inasmuch as God hath promised that the Church shall endure to the end of the world, so they must be held to apply to Peter and the successors of Peter. Wherefore it is manifest that all the faithful should be united under the Pope, as the supreme head of the Roman Church, the mother of all other churches ; and that whoever departs from the unity and doctrines of the Roman Church, unquestionably departs from Christ...
Página 64 - For, after all, Leo's qualities were those of the epoch to which Italy long looked back as the period of its greatest glory. His father, Lorenzo, had combined the selfish audacity of the condottiere prince with the plausible hypocrisy of the cautious merchant, and had adorned the mixture with daubs of literary and artistic culture. Leo inherited his father's characteristics, somewhat enfeebled by the Orsini strain of his mother. The spirit of adventure was weaker ; the open-heartedness of the noble...