Of the truth of Juliet's story they seem
tenacious
to a
degree, insisting on the fact, giving a date (1303), and showing a tomb.
degree, insisting on the fact, giving a date (1303), and showing a tomb.
Byron
If _this_ be treason, make the most
of it. "
Henry was delegate to the first Continental Congress, five times
Governor of Virginia, and was appointed U. S. Senator in 1794.
His contemporaries said that he was "the greatest orator that ever
lived. " He seems to have exercised a kind of magical influence over his
hearers, which they could not explain, which charmed and overwhelmed
them, and "has left behind a tradition of bewitching persuasiveness and
almost prophetic sublimity. "--See _Life of Patrick Henry_, by William
Wirt, 1845, _passim. _]
[ek] {561} ----_to one Napoleon_. --[MS. erased. ]
[el] ----_thy poor old wall forgets_. --[MS. erased. ]
[311] ["I have been over Verona. The amphitheatre is wonderful--beats
even Greece.
Of the truth of Juliet's story they seem tenacious to a
degree, insisting on the fact, giving a date (1303), and showing a tomb.
It is a plain, open, and partly decayed sarcophagus, with withered
leaves in it, in a wild and desolate conventual garden, once a cemetery,
now ruined to the very graves. The situation struck me as very
appropriate to the legend, being blighted as their love. . . . The Gothic
monuments of the Scaliger princes pleased me, but 'a poor virtuoso am
I. '"--Letter to Moore, November 7, 1816, _Letters_, 1899, iii. 386, 387.
The tombs of the Scaligers are close to the Church of Santa Maria
l'Antica. Juliet's tomb, "of red Verona marble," is in the garden of the
_Orfanotrofio_, between the Via Cappucini and the Adige. It is not "that
ancient vault where all the kindred of the Capulets lie," which has long
since been destroyed. Since 1814 Verona had been under Austria's sway,
and had "treacherously" forgotten her republican traditions. ]
[312] {562}[Francesco Can Grande della Scala died in 1329. It was under
his roof that Dante learned
". .
of it. "
Henry was delegate to the first Continental Congress, five times
Governor of Virginia, and was appointed U. S. Senator in 1794.
His contemporaries said that he was "the greatest orator that ever
lived. " He seems to have exercised a kind of magical influence over his
hearers, which they could not explain, which charmed and overwhelmed
them, and "has left behind a tradition of bewitching persuasiveness and
almost prophetic sublimity. "--See _Life of Patrick Henry_, by William
Wirt, 1845, _passim. _]
[ek] {561} ----_to one Napoleon_. --[MS. erased. ]
[el] ----_thy poor old wall forgets_. --[MS. erased. ]
[311] ["I have been over Verona. The amphitheatre is wonderful--beats
even Greece.
Of the truth of Juliet's story they seem tenacious to a
degree, insisting on the fact, giving a date (1303), and showing a tomb.
It is a plain, open, and partly decayed sarcophagus, with withered
leaves in it, in a wild and desolate conventual garden, once a cemetery,
now ruined to the very graves. The situation struck me as very
appropriate to the legend, being blighted as their love. . . . The Gothic
monuments of the Scaliger princes pleased me, but 'a poor virtuoso am
I. '"--Letter to Moore, November 7, 1816, _Letters_, 1899, iii. 386, 387.
The tombs of the Scaligers are close to the Church of Santa Maria
l'Antica. Juliet's tomb, "of red Verona marble," is in the garden of the
_Orfanotrofio_, between the Via Cappucini and the Adige. It is not "that
ancient vault where all the kindred of the Capulets lie," which has long
since been destroyed. Since 1814 Verona had been under Austria's sway,
and had "treacherously" forgotten her republican traditions. ]
[312] {562}[Francesco Can Grande della Scala died in 1329. It was under
his roof that Dante learned
". .
