Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic

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Longmans, Green and Company, 1907 - 377 pages
 

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Page 228 - Fortune, who betrays us to-day, will smile on us to-morrow. I am going out from Rome. Let those who wish to continue the war against the stranger, come with me. I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions ; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me.'
Page 284 - You dedicate your lives To her, and you will be The food on which she thrives, Till her great day arrives : — Italia, Italia shall be free! ' She asks you but for faith ! Your faith in her takes she As draughts of heaven's breath, Amid defeat and death
Page 25 - un sasso Che distingua le mie dalle infinite Ossa che in terra e in mar semina morte.' greater freedom and hardihood of a race of settlers in a new and spacious land; nor was the love of letters and poetry by any means wanting among them. Since this favourable opinion was formed by staid English merchants, who travelled widely in these regions, and had
Page 132 - The honour of Italy, Manara declares, has been saved. It is the first time since Novara that he expresses anything but shame and despair for his country.) CHAPTER VIII 1 GARIBALDI IN THE NEAPOLITAN CAMPAIGN—PALESTRINA AND VELLETRI, MAY 1849 ' Say by what name men call you, What city is your home ? And wherefore ride ye in such guise Before the ranks of Rome ?
Page 313 - together, The kingdoms are less by three. ' All the world has its burdens to bear, From Cayenne to the Austrian whips; Forth, with the rain in our hair And the salt sweet foam in our lips. ' In the teeth of the hard, glad weather, In the blown wet face of the sea; While three men hold together, The kingdoms are less by three.
Page 301 - The spot where Garibaldi and Leggiero landed at its door is marked by a stone. All around, the dark, flat, unprofitable marsh stretches away for miles, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by the beautiful curving sweep of the pine forest. Here they remained for twenty-four hours, until the secret preparations undertaken by Bonnet's Liberal friends in Ravenna were in a state of readiness.
Page 192 - Personal evidence of Costa. 4 Ventura's letter, Torre, ii. 392, 3. Pio Nono, in his ' Allocution ' of April 1848 (see p. 68 above) had refused to go to war with Austria because he felt himself to be the ' Vicar of Him who is the author of Peace and lover of Charity.
Page 299 - Huntsman's Ghost" ; and, even if I had not the same political feelings (to say nothing of my old convivial turn which every now and then revives), I would go as a poet, or, at least, as a lover of poetry.
Page 10 - always put in my opinion of the German and Austrian scoundrels : there is not an Italian who loathes them more than I do.'—(Byron, v. 245.) 1 If, as the name is held to indicate, one of his remote ancestors was sprung from the Teuton conquerors in the dark ages, he was none the less an Italian than a man of the name of
Page 68 - Yet, Freedom ! yet thy banner torn, but flying, Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

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