A summer and winter in two Sicilies, Volume 11858 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 28 - These little creatures take a long time to make up their minds — they wander restlessly from point to point of their twig, they stretch their heads, they turn round, they remain quiet, they move again, at length they begin. First of all, they throw around them a fine white silk, which is the sort of down in which the chrysalis is enveloped; then, within that, they weave their shroud of pure white or shining yellow. Round and round turn the unwearied little labourers; two sometimes unite, drawing...
Pagina 109 - The restrictions whic* make solitude in the world painful to ladies do , not apply with equal force to women of inferior rank ; few of them, whether they marry or not, leave the world ; they have plenty to do in it, and seem quite satisfied with their lot. Carmela, having had no broken matches, has given me but scanty information concerning popular courtships and marriages. The parents settle the match between themselves, and then refer to the young ; I need not say that in England the young people...
Pagina 28 - But their task is not over yet — the outer garment is . fashioned, it must be lined. It is only when their stock of silk is exhausted that they know their labour to be perfect ; then, wearied and exhausted, they cease and sleep until the day of the wakening. For some, alas ! that day never comes. They are taken in their helpless state, and baked in an oven, or roasted in the hot noonday sun. At the end of Carmela's garden, close by the olive path on the edge of the cliff that seems to hang above...
Pagina 110 - ... her father, who gravely scattered sugar-plums to the boys in the street. She was going to the cathedral, and the bridegroom was invisible. In Rome they make sure of being never seen, by marrying at four in the morning, which must make the wedding-day feel rather tedious. The Sorrento sposa does not leave her new home for a week, during which she is all but invisible ; after this she appears once more, and acts her usual part. I am sorry to say that Italian wives are not very happy.
Pagina 119 - Two years ago," is a very fair specimen of this feeling : — "It is a credit to any man to feel for any human being ; and Italy, as she is at this moment, is certainly one of the most tragic spectacles which the world has ever seen. Elsley need not be blamed for pitying her, only for holding, with most of our poets, a vague notion that her woes were to be cured by a hair of the dog who bit her — namely, by homceopathic doses of that same art which has been all along her morbid and selfdeceiving...
Pagina 136 - Lord," first in the former sense and then in the latter. In any ca.sc he s>cems to see a vision of the Way as being Love and Self-giving from the beginning to the end, from the first to the last of the aeons.