Italy is more eloquent and suggestive of the past, — the dreadful yet beautiful mediaeval past, when life was so strong and fierce, and passions blazed so suddenly to the bad and to the good, when men fought their neighbors one day, and the next labored... Hill Towns of Italy - Halaman 175oleh Egerton Ryerson Williams - 1903 - 398 halamanTampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
| Cynthia Lombardi - 1920 - 384 halaman
...already quite at home in these unusual surroundings. Her thoughts drifted further and further into the past — " the dreadful yet beautiful mediaeval...passions blazed so suddenly to the bad and to the good." Could it be really she, up-to-date Margaret Randolph, from practical common-sense New York, gone back,... | |
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