The Ring and the Book
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217396578
Paperback|9780217396578
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IX. JURIS DOCTOR JOHANNES- BAPTISTA BOTTINIUS, FISCI ET REV. CAM. APOSTOL. ADVOCATUS. Had I God's leave, how I would alter things If I might read instead of print my speech, ? Ay, and enliven speech with many a flower Refuses obstinately blow in print As wildings planted in a prim parterre, ? 5 This scurvy room were turned an immense hall; Opposite, fifty judges in a row; This side and that of me, for audience?Rome: And, where yon window is, the Pope should be? Watch, curtained, but yet visibly enough. 10A buzz of expectation Through the crowd, Jingling his chain and stumping with his staff, Up comes an usher, louts him low, The Court Requires the allocution of the Fisc I rise, I bend, I look about me, pause O'er the hushed multitude: I count?One, two? Have ye seen, Judges, have ye, lights of law, ? When it may hap some painter, much in vogue Throughout our city nutritive of arts, Ye summon to a task shall test his worth, 20 And manufacture, as he knows and can, A work may decorate a palace-wall, Afford my lords their Holy Family, ? Hath it escaped the acumen of the Court How such a painter sets himself to paint ? 25 Suppose that Joseph, Mary and her Babe A-journeying to Egypt prove the piece: Why, first he sedulously practiseth, This painter, ?girding loin and lighting lamp, ? On what may nourish eye, make facile hand; 30 Getteth him studies (styled by draughtsmen so; From some assistant corpse of Jew or Turk Or, haply, Molinist, he cuts and carves, ? This Luca or this Carlo or the like: To him the bones their inmost secret yield, 35 Each notch and nodule signify their use, On him the muscles turn, in triple tier, And pleasantly entreat the entrusted man, ?.
| ISBN-13 | 9780217396578 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217396577 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 132 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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