and his usual tap of excellent wine. (`Vino del Popolo' he called it.) The `Osteria' had filled; th...
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in substance some years afterwards to another friend: `You are wrong -- quite wrong -- she has geni...
so many of us regard the mortal remains of those they have loved, or with the solemn or friendly in...
at Casa Guidi. It was four years before he definitely began the work. The idea of converting the st...
in the works of an author, the reviews are obliged to notice him, such notice as it is -- but what ...
In the following year he received and declined the virtual offer of the Lord Rectorship of the Univ...
Hearts would leap otherwise at thy advance, Lady, to whom this Tower is consecrate! Like hers, thy...
-- == This is my last extract from the correspondence with Miss Blagden. Her death closed it alto...
they must have held many reminiscences of galleries and studios, and of the places in which picture...
of sacrificing her own happiness with that of the man she loved; she was determined to give herself...
far more of than I do, and always maintains they are the happiest growth of the French school. Sett...
We stayed a week, as it was, living upon fish and cold water. . . .' == The one dated Florence, De...
== Venice: June 4 (probably '50). `. . . I have been between Heaven and Earth since our arrival at...
under all the quietness, and perhaps by means of it, you are aware of an intense burning soul. She ...
an indirect vindication of the conceptions of human life which `Christmas Eve and Easter Day' conde...