Through the Heel of ItalyRae D. Henkle Company, Incorporated, 1927 - 305 páginas |
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Página 263 - I waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of which all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.
Página 71 - In order to bring as speedy a termination as possible to the dismay and agitation which this event had spread throughout the city, two of those who had been last taken were sent in to their companions, with their hands tied, to persuade them to surrender, and to inform them that if they persevered in a resistance, which, from the local nature of their retreat, must be unavailing, a straw fire would be lighted at the orifice as the only means of hastening their compliance or destruction. The unfortunate...
Página 74 - When the hunter has seized the young tiger cubs and is pursued by the tiger, he places a mirror in the path of the furious animal, who, on perceiving himself in it, is so charmed by the spectacle of his own beauty, that he gives up the chase, and forgets his loss. The hunter is the devil, the cub...
Página 212 - ... having won five hundred Norman knights to his standard, he fastened crosses upon their shoulders made out of the strips of two rich vestments which he ordered to be cut up for the purpose. Crowds of followers flocked from Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily, to join him, and his preparations were so rapid that in a few days he was able to embark from Reggio with an army of thirty thousand men. " After remaining a whole year at Constantinople the Crusaders began their march through Asia Minor towards...
Página 213 - His laugh was as terrible as the anger of others. Quick-witted and cunning, he spoke much to the purpose and was never at a loss for an answer to any question which was addressed to him.
Página 53 - Michael who is the first of the seven archangels, the captain of the Hosts of Heaven, the recording angel and the special patron of all high and mountainous places.
Página 213 - Neither the Empire nor any foreign country has produced in our century a man comparable to him. His presence dazzled the eye as much as his reputation astonished the mind.
Página 107 - What is not done at dinner can be done at supper.' And one day, the seventeenth of August, he entered his room, as the young man was already up, and ordered his wife and sister to leave it; then having called in three assassins he had the said young man strangled.
Página 53 - In 1825, on the occasion of the jubilee, Pope Leo XII. struck a medal, bearing on one side his own image, and on the other that of the Church of Rome, symbolized as a 'woman...
Página 249 - The Count, on the contrary, ordered a sumptuous feast to be prepared and invited his friends to assemble after the fight. He carelessly bade his wife goodbye and jocularly remarked that he was going out to slaughter a kid, "Vado a far un caprettol...