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Cecilia Viets Jamison

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Description:Excerpt: ...'Tonight, ' he says, ' I shall go to bed never to rise again. I will look now at Rome for the last time. There is the palace of Monte Giordiano, where I lived in my early youth; and beyond, the convent of Santa Maria del Popolo, the asylum opened to my old age. Without the aid of those good brothers I should have died of hunger long ago. Behind me is the Vatican, where I have passed many hours of mortal anxiety, always to be disappointed. Here is the Capitol, where they prepared my crown, --a preparation, alas! useless. The fever that devours me had told too much. Ah I I will turn my eyes from that city where I have so suffered, and contemplate the mountains, the supreme ornament of that vast picture. They communicate to the soul infinite aspirations mixed with the sweetness of eternal repose. That repose begins for me. I have a foretaste of it. I feel the overshadowing of ineffable peace.'" All were silent for some moments, lost in thought, or contemplating the lovely scene with mingled feelings of melancholy and admiration. Then the Prince said, "If I had the misfortune to be a poet, I should not seek an asylum here, lest the memory of the unhappy Tasso should work the same disorder in me. I believe his diseased mind magnified trifling ills into great realities, and that exaltation was accompanied by an access of fever and delirium, until, weakened by his own violences, the spirit of revolt gave place to meek resignation. If I should write his elegy, I should conclude it in these words: 'Tasso owed one half of his misfortunes to the weakness of his character, and the other half to the beauty of his genius."" As the Piince finished, a monk approached to tell them it was Ave Maria, and time to close the gates. They gave...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Woven of Many Threads. To get started finding Woven of Many Threads, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt: ...'Tonight, ' he says, ' I shall go to bed never to rise again. I will look now at Rome for the last time. There is the palace of Monte Giordiano, where I lived in my early youth; and beyond, the convent of Santa Maria del Popolo, the asylum opened to my old age. Without the aid of those good brothers I should have died of hunger long ago. Behind me is the Vatican, where I have passed many hours of mortal anxiety, always to be disappointed. Here is the Capitol, where they prepared my crown, --a preparation, alas! useless. The fever that devours me had told too much. Ah I I will turn my eyes from that city where I have so suffered, and contemplate the mountains, the supreme ornament of that vast picture. They communicate to the soul infinite aspirations mixed with the sweetness of eternal repose. That repose begins for me. I have a foretaste of it. I feel the overshadowing of ineffable peace.'" All were silent for some moments, lost in thought, or contemplating the lovely scene with mingled feelings of melancholy and admiration. Then the Prince said, "If I had the misfortune to be a poet, I should not seek an asylum here, lest the memory of the unhappy Tasso should work the same disorder in me. I believe his diseased mind magnified trifling ills into great realities, and that exaltation was accompanied by an access of fever and delirium, until, weakened by his own violences, the spirit of revolt gave place to meek resignation. If I should write his elegy, I should conclude it in these words: 'Tasso owed one half of his misfortunes to the weakness of his character, and the other half to the beauty of his genius."" As the Piince finished, a monk approached to tell them it was Ave Maria, and time to close the gates. They gave...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Woven of Many Threads. To get started finding Woven of Many Threads, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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