item: #1 of 26 id: 16180 author: Macmillan, Hugh title: Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood date: None words: 142399 flesch: 57 summary: It seems strange to think of these ancient columns, that looked down upon the legal transactions of Roman Veii, now standing in one of the busiest squares of modern Rome, associated with one of the most characteristic and important of our modern institutions, of which ancient Rome had not even the germ. It was a forlorn waste, with a few ruins scattered over it, and two formal rows of poplar-trees running down the middle of it, and wild-eyed buffaloes and mouse-coloured oxen from the Campagna wandering over the solitude, and cropping the grass and green weeds that grew in the very heart of old Rome. keywords: account; ages; air; altar; antiquity; appian; arch; art; beauty; books; building; capitol; century; christian; church; churches; city; codex; colour; columns; connection; country; court; dark; day; days; dead; death; earth; egypt; egyptian; emperor; empire; etruscan; family; father; feet; foot; footprints; forum; fragments; god; greek; ground; hand; height; hill; history; house; human; imperial; interest; italy; king; lake; land; left; life; light; manuscript; marble; material; mind; modern; monuments; nature; neighbourhood; new; number; obelisk; objects; order; original; pagan; paul; people; period; place; poet; pope; present; public; purpose; red; relics; religion; remains; road; rock; roman; rome; ruins; santa; scene; sea; sibyl; site; small; son; spot; state; stone; sun; tasso; temple; time; tomb; vatican; villa; visit; volcanic; walls; water; way; white; work; world; worship; years cache: 16180.txt plain text: 16180.txt item: #2 of 26 id: 16327 author: Fuller, Margaret title: At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe date: None words: 166363 flesch: 71 summary: Men, too, whom the world regards as great men, whether because of wisdom, poesy, warlike achievements, or of wealth and station, they seek to take by the hand and in some degree to know; at least to note their appearance, demeanor, and mode of life. From the people themselves the help must come, and not from princes; in the new state of things, there will be none but natural princes, great men. keywords: air; american; beauty; believe; blood; cause; character; children; church; city; come; country; day; days; death; doubt; earth; effect; england; english; europe; evening; expression; eyes; fair; father; feeling; find; fine; form; france; free; french; friend; general; genius; god; good; government; half; hand; having; head; heart; high; home; honor; hope; hour; house; human; idea; indian; interest; italian; italy; kind; king; lake; left; letter; life; light; look; love; man; manner; means; men; mind; moment; morning; music; nations; nature; near; need; new; noble; people; persons; pictures; pius; place; pleasure; pope; position; power; present; return; roman; rome; scene; seeing; sense; soul; spirit; state; subject; things; think; thought; thy; time; true; truth; war; water; way; white; wild; wish; women; words; work; world; years; young cache: 16327.txt plain text: 16327.txt item: #3 of 26 id: 17284 author: Dicey, Edward title: Rome in 1860 date: None words: 53565 flesch: 65 summary: Yet surely, if anything of dead Rome be still left in the living city, it should be found in the Roman people. The real questions are, What class at Rome gain by it, and what is it that they gain? keywords: carnival; carriages; case; church; city; corso; country; course; court; crowd; day; english; evidence; fact; faith; father; french; good; government; great; half; italian; italy; justice; left; life; lottery; murder; night; number; old; order; papacy; papal; people; persons; place; police; poor; pope; present; priests; prisoner; private; public; question; road; roman; rome; sentence; streets; system; time; town; truth; way; world; year cache: 17284.txt plain text: 17284.txt item: #4 of 26 id: 19732 author: Caine, Hall, Sir title: The Eternal City date: None words: 175594 flesch: 87 summary: said the doctor to little Roma. There was silence for a moment, and then she said, in a voice that struggled to control itself: So this was the father of little Roma? Yes. Is it very like him? Very. What a beautiful face! keywords: baron; boy; bruno; child; church; city; coming; daughter; david rossi; day; dear; death; doctor; donna; donna roma; door; elena; excellency; eyes; face; father; feet; friend; god; good; government; hand; head; heart; holiness; holy; home; house; husband; italy; joseph; king; know; lady; left; letter; life; little; look; love; man; minister; moment; morning; mother; new; night; old; people; piazza; place; police; pope; princess; public; roma; rome; room; rose; rossi; silence; sir; son; soul; story; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; wife; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 19732.txt plain text: 19732.txt item: #5 of 26 id: 20086 author: Richards, Fred title: Rome: A Sketch-Book date: None words: 492 flesch: 71 summary: Where differences between the list of illustrations and the caption text existed in the original the most comprehensive description was used for both. [Illustration: 'S. MARIA DI LORETO' FROM THE PIAZZA VENEZIA.] keywords: illustration cache: 20086.txt plain text: 20086.txt item: #6 of 26 id: 23430 author: Abbott, Jacob title: Rollo in Rome date: None words: 40920 flesch: 84 summary: I do not know how many more torch light visits to wonderful places in Rome Rollo would have planned, had not the time arrived when Mr. George thought it was necessary for them to go back to France. In the Italian diligences, however, or at least in the one in which Mr. George and Rollo travelled to Rome, there were only three. keywords: allie; boy; carriage; charles; coachman; copley; diligence; door; george; home; hotel; office; party; place; rollo; rome; room; set; think; time; uncle; uncle george; way cache: 23430.txt plain text: 23430.txt item: #7 of 26 id: 27873 author: Lee, Vernon title: The Spirit of Rome date: None words: 21080 flesch: 74 summary: This _is_ Rome! _ Little garden, with box hedges and lemon-trees. keywords: altar; black; blue; century; church; day; grass; green; grey; hills; iii; impression; life; light; march; mountains; pale; past; people; place; roman; rome; round; sea; sky; spring; things; tiber; time; trees; valley; villa; walls; water; white; woods; yesterday cache: 27873.txt plain text: 27873.txt item: #8 of 26 id: 28600 author: Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) title: Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome date: None words: 85524 flesch: 59 summary: See under _Vatican_ Charlemagne, i. 32, 49, 51, 53, 76, 109; ii. 297 Charles of Anjou, i. ii. For he himself is grown grey and war-worn in the strife of a few poor years, while through five and twenty centuries Rome has faced war and the world; and he, a gladiator of life, bows his head before her, wondering how his own fight shall end at last, while his lips pronounce the submission of his own mortality to her abiding endurance-- AVE ROMA IMMORTALIS, MORITURUS TE SALUTAT Index A Abruzzi, i. 159; ii. 230 Accoramboni, Flaminio, i. 296 Vittoria, i. 135, 148, 289-296, 297 Agrarian Law, i. 23 Agrippa, i. 90, 271; ii. keywords: age; angelo; arms; art; artists; blood; body; capitol; cardinal; catholic; century; chapel; church; city; colonna; day; days; dead; death; early; emperor; end; europe; eyes; fact; father; fourth; genius; good; great; half; hand; head; history; holy; house; i. 107; illustration; italian; italy; jews; john; left; leo; life; man; means; men; michelangelo; new; night; ninth; order; orsini; people; peter; pius; place; pope; power; raphael; region; rienzi; roman; rome; saint; second; set; sort; state; streets; things; thirteenth; time; vatican; way; women; words; work; world; years cache: 28600.txt plain text: 28600.txt item: #9 of 26 id: 28614 author: Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) title: Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome date: None words: 82708 flesch: 58 summary: See under _Vatican_ Charlemagne, i. 32, 49, 51, 53, 76, 109; ii. 297 Charles of Anjou, i. ii. Churches of,-- the Apostles, i. 157, 170-172, 205, 241, 242; ii. 213 Aracoeli, i. 52, 112, 167; ii. 57, 70, 75 Cardinal Mazarin, i. 186 the Gallows, i. 284 Holy Guardian Angel, i. 122 the Minerva, ii. 55 the Penitentiaries, ii. 216 the Portuguese, i. 250 Saint Adrian, i. 71 Agnes, i. 301, 304 Augustine, ii. 207 Bernard, i. 291 Callixtus, ii. 125 Charles, i. 251 Eustace, ii. 23, 24, 26, 39 George in Velabro, i. 195; ii. 10 Gregory on the Aventine, ii. 129 Ives, i. 251; ii. 23, 24 John of the Florentines, i. 273 Pine Cone, ii. 56 Peter's on the Janiculum, ii. 129 Sylvester, i. 176 Saints Nereus and Achillæus, ii. 125 Vincent and Anastasius, i. 186 San Clemente, i. 143 Giovanni in Laterano, i. 113 Lorenzo in Lucina, i. 192 Miranda, i. 71 Marcello, i. 165, 192 Pietro in Montorio, ii. 151 Vincoli, i. 118, 283; ii. 322 Salvatore in Cacaberis, i. 112 Stefano Rotondo, i. 106 Sant' Angelo in Pescheria, i. 102; ii. 3, 10, 110 Santa Francesca Romana, i. 111 Maria de Crociferi, i. 267 degli Angeli, i. 146, 258, 259 dei Monti, i. 118 del Pianto, i. 113 di Grotto Pinta, i. 294 in Campo Marzo, ii. 23 in Via Lata, i. 142 Nuova, i. 111, 273 Transpontina, ii. 212 della Vittoria, i. 302 Prisca, ii. 124 Sabina, i. 278; ii. 40 Trinità dei Pellegrini, ii. 110 Cicero, i. 45, 73; ii. 96, 294 Cimabue, ii. 156, 157, 162, 163, 169, 188, 189 Cinna, i. 25, 27 Circolo, ii. 245 Circus, the, i. 64, 253 Maximus, i. 64, 66; ii. 84, 119 City of Augustus, i. 57-77 Making of the, i. 1-21 of Rienzi, i. 93; ii. 6-8 of the Empire, i. 22-56 of the Middle Age, i. 47, 78-99, 92 of the Republic, i. 47 today, i. 55, 92 Civilization, ii. 177 and bloodshed, ii. 218 morality, ii. 178 progress, ii. 177-180 Claudius, i. 46, 255, 256; ii. 102 Cloelia, i. 13 Coelian hill, i. 106 Collegio Romano, i. 102; ii. 45, 61 Colonna, the, i. 51, 94, 104, 135, 153, 157-170, 172, 176, 187, 206, 217, 251, 252, 271, 272, 275-283, 306-315; ii. 2, 6, 8, 10, 16, 20, 37, 51, 54, 60, 106, 107, 126, 204 Giovanni, i. 104 Jacopo, i. 159, 165, 192 Lorenzo, ii. 126, 204-213 Marcantonio, i. 182; ii. 54 Pietro, i. 159 Pompeo, i. 305, 310-317; ii. 205 Prospero, ii. 205 Sciarra, i. 162-166, 192, 206, 213, 229, 279, 275, 281, 307 Stephen, i. 161, 165; ii. 13, 16 the Younger, i. 168 Vittoria, i. 157, 173-177; ii. 174 the Region, i. 101, 190-192; ii. 209 War between Orsini and, i. 51, 104, 159, 168, 182, 275-283, 306-315; ii. 12, 18, 126, 204-211 Colosseum, i. 56, 86, 90, 96, 106, 107, 111, 125, 152, 153, 187, 191, 209, 278; ii. 25, 64, 66, 84, 97, 202, 203, 301 Column of Piazza Colonna i. 190, 192 Comitium, i. 112, 257, 268 Commodus, i. 46, 55; ii. 97, 285 Confraternities, i. 108, 204 Conscript Fathers, i. 78, 112 Constable of Bourbon, i. 52, 259, 273, 304, 309-311; ii. 308 Constans, i. 135, 136 Constantine, i. 90, 113, 163 Constantinople, i. 95, 119 Contests in the Forum, i. 27, 130 Convent of Saint Catharine, i. 176 Convent of Saint Sylvester, i. 176 Corneto, Cardinal of, ii. 282, 283 Cornomania, i. 141 Cornutis, i. 87 Coromania, i. 141, 144 Corsini, the, ii. 150 Corso, i. 96, 106, 108, 192, 196, 205, 206, 229, 251 Vittorio Emanuele, i. 275 Corte Savella, i. 284; ii. 52 Cosmas, the, ii. 156, 157 Costa, Giovanni da, i. 205 Court House, i. 71 Crassus, i. 27, 31; ii. 128 Crawford, Thomas, i. 147 Crescentius, ii. 40, 41 Crescenzi, i. 114; ii. 27, 40, 209 Crescenzio, ii. 28-40 Stefana, ii. 39 Crispi, i. 116, 187 Crusade, the Second, ii. 86, 105 Crusades, the, i. 76 Curatii, i. 3, 131 Customs of early Rome, i. 9, 48 in dress, i. 48 religion, i. 48 D Dante, i. 110; ii. 164, 175, 244 Decameron, i. 239 Decemvirs, i. 14; ii. 120 Decrees, Semiamiran, i. 178 Democracy, i. 108 Development of Rome, i. 7, 18 some results of, i. 154 under Barons, i. 51 Decemvirs, i. 14 the Empire, i. 29, 30 Gallic invasion, i. 15-18 Kings, i. 2-7, 14-45 Middle Age, i. 47, 92, 210-247 Papal rule, i. 46-50 Republic, i. 7-14 Tribunes, i. 14 Dictator of Rome, i. 29, 79 Dietrich of Bern, ii. 297 Dionysus, ii. 121 Dolabella, i. 34 Domenichino, ii. 147 Domestic life in Rome, i. 9 Dominicans, i. 158; ii. 45, 46, 49, 50, 60, 61 Domitian, i. 45, 152, 205; ii. 104, 114, 124, 295 Doria, the, i. 206; ii. 45 Albert, i. 207 Andrea, i. 207 Conrad, i. 207 Gian Andrea, i. 207 Lamba, i. 207 Paganino, i. 207 Doria-Pamfili, i. 206-209 Dress in early Rome, i. 48 Drusus, ii. 102 Duca, Antonio del, i. 146, 147 Giacomo del, i. 146 Dürer, Albert, ii. 198 E Education, ii. 179 Egnatia, i. 75 Elagabalus, i. 77, 177, 179; ii. 296, 297 Election of the Pope, ii. 41, 42, 277 Electoral Wards, i. 107 Elizabeth, Queen of England, ii. 47 Emperors, Roman, i. 46 of the East, i. 95, 126 Empire of Constantinople, i. 46 of Rome, i. 15, 17, 22-28, 31, 45, 47, 53, 60, 72, 99 Encyclicals, ii. 244 Erasmus, ii. 151 Esquiline, the, i. 26, 106, 139, 186; ii. 95, 131, 193 Este, Ippolito d', i. 185 Etruria, i. 12, 15 Euodus, i. 255, 256 Eustace, Saint, ii. 24, 25 square of, ii. 25, 42 Eustachio. keywords: age; air; ancient; angelo; arms; augustus; blood; bridge; cardinal; centuries; century; children; church; city; colonna; cæsar; dark; day; days; dead; death; early; emperor; empire; end; eyes; family; father; fighting; good; half; hand; head; high; history; holy; horace; house; i. 107; illustration; italian; italy; left; life; man; men; middle; modern; monti; new; night; nobles; order; orsini; palace; people; peter; piazza; pope; power; public; region; roman; rome; round; ruins; saint; san; second; set; son; street; temple; things; time; today; villa; vittoria; walls; water; way; women; world; years cache: 28614.txt plain text: 28614.txt item: #10 of 26 id: 31723 author: Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) title: Cecilia: A Story of Modern Rome date: None words: 109928 flesch: 83 summary: At last Guido straightened himself with an evident effort, as if he had forced himself to decide the matter, but he did not look at Lamberti. That is exactly what she threatens to do, answered Guido d'Este, dejectedly. keywords: answer; cecilia; countess; course; d'este; day; door; dream; eyes; face; friend; girl; good; great; guido; hand; head; heart; lamberti; left; leroy; life; long; look; love; man; matter; men; moment; monsieur; mother; people; place; princess; question; reason; right; room; things; thought; time; voice; way; woman; words; world cache: 31723.txt plain text: 31723.txt item: #11 of 26 id: 36817 author: Tuker, M. A. R. (Mildred Anna Rosalie) title: Rome date: None words: 75283 flesch: 60 summary: And so the Roman possesses in its highest terms the gift of _criterion_. Perhaps the gift of _criterion_ nourished among the grandeurs of classical and Christian Rome is a sorry preparation for enthusiasm over the sights to be seen in other men's cities. keywords: arch; art; basilica; building; campagna; capitol; cardinal; centuries; century; chapter; christian; christianity; church; churches; city; colonna; country; day; dead; door; early; emperor; england; english; englishman; fact; families; family; fine; forum; god; good; government; hand; hill; history; house; illustration; italian; italy; latin; law; left; life; marble; maria; members; men; middle; new; number; open; outside; pages; palatine; papal; people; period; peter; pius; place; pope; power; present; priest; prince; public; red; religion; roman; rome; round; san; self; sense; set; spirit; state; streets; temple; things; time; vatican; villa; walls; way; women; work; world; years cache: 36817.txt plain text: 36817.txt item: #12 of 26 id: 37953 author: Waddington, Mary King title: Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 date: None words: 105790 flesch: 77 summary: We climbed straight up a high hill (2,000 feet) soon after leaving Cività Vecchia, and had for some time a divine view of sea and coast; then plunged at once into the mountains, great barren, stony peaks with little old grey villages on top; hills rolling away on each side, a wild, desolate country. Priests and nuns of course, and old people, both men and women, but it seemed extraordinary to me to see young men, tall, good-looking fellows, bend down quite as reverently as the others and kiss the toe. keywords: afternoon; beautiful; black; blue; breakfast; campagna; cardinal; carriage; charming; children; church; country; course; court; dark; day; days; dinner; door; drive; english; evening; flowers; french; friends; garden; gert; good; green; half; home; hotel; house; italian; italy; ladies; left; life; looking; madame; making; man; men; morning; mrs; music; night; palace; paris; people; piazza; pope; princess; quantities; queen; red; road; roman; rome; room; standing; streets; talk; talking; tea; things; thought; time; trees; view; villa; way; white; women; years cache: 37953.txt plain text: 37953.txt item: #13 of 26 id: 38486 author: Garibaldi, Giuseppe title: Rule of the Monk; Or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century date: None words: 90492 flesch: 67 summary: Cavour,' we are told, founded in 1847 with his friends, Cesare Balbo, Santa Rosa, Buoncampagni, Castelli, and other men of moderate constitutional views, the _Risorgimento_, of which he became the editor; and the principles of the new periodical were announced to be 'independence of Italy, union between the princes,' and the people's progress in the path of reform, and a league between the Italian States. THE MONTIGIANIS While the conflict in Trastevere was going on, the Montigianis, headed by Cucchi, Guerzoni, Bossi, Adamoli, and other brave men did not remain with their hands folded. keywords: arms; army; attilio; captain; cardinal; chapter; chief; city; clelia; companions; country; day; dead; death; door; enemy; eyes; face; father; fire; forest; french; friends; garibaldi; gasparo; general; god; good; government; hand; head; heart; house; irene; italian; italy; julia; leave; left; liberty; life; love; manlio; men; moment; muzio; night; noble; number; orazio; order; papal; people; place; present; priests; prince; republic; roman; rome; sea; silvio; soldiers; thought; time; troops; way; women; words; world; wounded; years cache: 38486.txt plain text: 38486.txt item: #14 of 26 id: 40135 author: Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret) title: The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books date: None words: 197360 flesch: 61 summary: Great Rome lay wrecked and ended in the sight of the patrician monk who had schooled himself out of all the bitterness of the vanquished in that new hope and new life of the cloister. Roman artists at length began to appear amid the host of Florentines and the whole world seems to have turned into one great _bottega_ full of everything rich and rare. keywords: affairs; age; authority; bishop; capitol; cardinal; character; christian; church; city; cola; colonna; council; country; court; crowd; day; days; death; doubt; earth; election; emperor; empire; end; eyes; face; faith; family; forth; friends; god; good; great; gregory; half; hand; head; heart; held; henry; high; hildebrand; history; holy; hope; house; illustration; innocent; italy; jerome; john; kind; king; ladies; lateran; lay; left; letters; life; little; lord; man; marcella; men; mind; moment; money; mother; new; noble; order; papal; paula; people; peter; place; pope; pope gregory; position; power; priests; princes; reason; rienzi; right; roman; rome; round; society; son; state; things; thought; time; tribune; way; women; words; work; world; years; young cache: 40135.txt plain text: 40135.txt item: #15 of 26 id: 40181 author: Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) title: To Leeward date: None words: 99034 flesch: 81 summary: He had the faculty of saying little things to women that attracted their attention. Mr. Julius Batiscombe was a man of five and thirty years of age, and a person sure to attract attention anywhere. keywords: batiscombe; boat; brother; carantoni; course; dark; day; dear; diana; door; eyes; face; good; half; hand; head; heart; hour; house; husband; idea; julius; julius batiscombe; kind; leonora; life; little; look; love; madame; man; marcantonio; mind; moment; morning; night; people; place; rome; room; sea; sister; things; thought; time; water; way; wife; woman; world cache: 40181.txt plain text: 40181.txt item: #16 of 26 id: 40922 author: Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) title: Pietro Ghisleri date: None words: 155256 flesch: 82 summary: For before the day of parting came Pietro Ghisleri knew that he loved Laura Arden. Just fancy, my dear, exclaimed Donna Maria Boccapaduli to the Marchesa di San Giacinto on the evening of the following day, Pietro Ghisleri is going to marry Laura Arden, after all! keywords: adele; arden; case; course; day; dear; donna; eyes; face; francesco; friend; gerano; ghisleri; giacinto; good; hand; heart; herbert; husband; know; lady; laura; laura arden; left; letter; life; little; long; love; maddalena; man; matter; mind; moment; people; person; pietro; pietro ghisleri; place; present; princess; right; room; san; savelli; story; talk; things; thought; time; way; woman; world; years cache: 40922.txt plain text: 40922.txt item: #17 of 26 id: 44827 author: Gallizier, Nathan title: Under the Witches' Moon: A Romantic Tale of Mediaeval Rome date: None words: 132815 flesch: 83 summary: Night after night Basil descended into the crypts of the Emperor's Tomb, sometimes alone, sometimes with one or two companions, men Tristan had never seen. She thought of Tristan night and day, and she was determined to save him, whatever the hazard,--save him for herself and her love. keywords: air; alberic; arms; basil; beautiful; beauty; black; blood; chamber; chamberlain; chapel; church; city; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; death; desire; door; earth; ere; evil; eyes; face; fate; fear; feet; fire; form; gaze; great; half; hands; head; heart; hellayne; hour; interposed; lady theodora; lateran; left; life; lips; look; lord; lord basil; lord tristan; love; marozia; mind; moment; monk; night; pale; passion; perchance; persephoné; place; power; reply; rome; rose; round; roxana; save; saw; senator; set; silence; smile; soul; theodora; thing; thought; time; tomb; tristan; voice; way; white; woman; words; world cache: 44827.txt plain text: 44827.txt item: #18 of 26 id: 46517 author: Serao, Matilde title: The conquest of Rome date: None words: 87220 flesch: 74 summary: The Honourable Sangiorgio finished his meal hastily, inwardly gnawed with impatience to get a close view of these statesmen, these party leaders, and then once more made for Montecitorio. The Honourable Sangiorgio climbed to the third floor, to the library. keywords: air; angelica; arm; black; blue; carriage; castelforte; chamber; cold; dark; day; deputies; deputy; donna; door; evening; eyes; face; floor; francesco; friend; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; honourable; hour; house; lady; left; life; light; look; love; man; mind; minister; moment; new; oldofredi; pale; people; piazza; place; politics; red; rome; room; round; sangiorgio; scalia; shoulders; silence; silvio; smile; soul; standing; table; think; thought; time; voice; waiting; want; way; white; wife; woman; word cache: 46517.txt plain text: 46517.txt item: #19 of 26 id: 5227 author: Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) title: Sant' Ilario date: None words: 166792 flesch: 81 summary: I do not like little men. The reflection of an Italian upon the mental retina of the foreigner is as deceptive as his own outward image is when seen upon the polished surface of a concave mirror; and indeed the character studies of many great men, when the subject is taken from a race not their own, remind one very forcibly of what may be seen by contemplating oneself in the bowl of a bright silver spoon. keywords: anastase; case; corona; course; day; dead; dear; donna; door; eyes; face; family; father; faustina; flavia; giacinto; giovanni; girl; good; gouache; half; hand; head; heart; house; husband; ilario; left; life; look; love; man; matter; meschini; mind; moment; montevarchi; morning; night; order; people; place; poor; present; prince; princess; rome; room; san; san giacinto; sant; saracinesca; son; table; things; thought; time; voice; way; wife; woman; words cache: 5227.txt plain text: 5227.txt item: #20 of 26 id: 5310 author: Glyn, Elinor title: The Point of View date: None words: 29166 flesch: 77 summary: She had not closed an eye, but thought Miss Stella was enjoying them statues better without her, which was indeed true, if she had guessed! I understand that for a short while you have been engaged to be married to Miss Stella Rawson, the niece of the respected English clergyman, the Reverend Ebley-- Pardon me, interrupted Mr. Medlicott acidly, but I do not see how my private affairs can interest you, sir, I cannot-- But the host in turn interrupted him. keywords: aunt; canon; caroline; count; door; ebley; eustace; eyes; love; man; medlicott; miss; mrs; rawson; room; roumovski; stella; things; time; uncle; voice cache: 5310.txt plain text: 5310.txt item: #21 of 26 id: 5847 author: Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) title: The Heart of Rome: A Tale of the "Lost Water" date: None words: 100325 flesch: 84 summary: At first Malipieri had supposed that this aperture communicated with some ancient and long-forgotten drain by which the water could escape to the Tiber; it was not until he had gained an entrance to the hollow mass of masonry that he understood the hideous use to which it had been applied. Little by little Sabina understood that she could not persuade him to trust to the future, and she grew anxious about him. keywords: baroness; conti; course; day; detective; door; end; eyes; face; gigi; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; help; house; left; life; light; look; malipieri; man; masin; men; moment; mother; palace; people; porter; princess; room; sabina; sassi; thought; time; toto; volterra; water; way; wife; woman cache: 5847.txt plain text: 5847.txt item: #22 of 26 id: 8721 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1 date: None words: 45796 flesch: 68 summary: But at last Pierre tore himself away from the sublime spectacle. At last Pierre ended by feeling as though he were transported into some /salon/ of the time of Charles X, in one of the episcopal cities of the French provinces. keywords: abbe; benedetta; black; boccanera; book; cardinal; church; city; dario; day; don; eminence; eyes; face; faith; father; good; great; heart; holy; l'abbe; left; life; love; man; moment; monsieur; morning; nani; new; people; pierre; pope; priest; roman; rome; room; time; vatican; vigilio; words; work; world; years cache: 8721.txt plain text: 8721.txt item: #23 of 26 id: 8722 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2 date: None words: 44327 flesch: 66 summary: Pebbled, deserted inclines stretched out, and steps followed steps, worn and white, under the burning sun; but at last Pierre reached the door and went in. Without Rome new Italy could not have existed; Rome represented the glory of ancient time; in her dust lay the sovereign power which we wished to re-establish; she brought strength, beauty, eternity to those who possessed her. keywords: benedetta; centuries; city; dario; day; days; eyes; face; father; glory; good; hand; heart; italy; left; life; love; man; marble; men; monsignor; narcisse; new; order; orlando; palace; palatine; passion; people; pierre; pope; power; pride; priest; right; rome; room; set; soil; son; time; tombs; walls; way; woman; work; world; years cache: 8722.txt plain text: 8722.txt item: #24 of 26 id: 8723 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3 date: None words: 48071 flesch: 68 summary: Some day, no doubt, it would all be rebuilt, but how interesting was this phase of the city's evolution: old Rome expiring and new Rome just dawning amidst countless difficulties! And in these gardens of Rome Pierre ever found the same clipped box-shrubs, the same eucalypti with white trunks and pale leaves long like hair, the same ilex-trees squat and dusky, the same giant pines, the same black cypresses, the same marbles whitening amidst tufts of roses, and the same fountains gurgling under mantling ivy. keywords: away; benedetta; church; city; dario; day; dear; evening; eyes; father; good; hand; heart; holy; houses; left; leo; life; love; man; millions; money; monsignor; nani; narcisse; order; people; peter; pierre; poor; pope; priest; prince; right; roman; rome; room; things; thought; time; vatican; way; white; work; world; xiii; young cache: 8723.txt plain text: 8723.txt item: #25 of 26 id: 8724 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 4 date: None words: 63928 flesch: 71 summary: However, a sound of coughing made Pierre turn, and he started on perceiving Cardinal Sarno, whom he had not heard enter. But I like to think that he has also realised the touching significance of that marriage--old Rome, in the person of that candid, loving child giving herself to young Italy, that upright, enthusiastic young man who wears his uniform so jauntily. keywords: away; basket; benedetta; black; boccanera; book; cardinal; church; congregation; count; dario; day; dear; don; eminence; evening; eyes; face; father; figs; frascati; god; good; hands; holy; life; love; man; mind; moment; monsignor; nani; order; people; pierre; pope; power; prada; priest; rome; room; santobono; silence; things; thought; time; vigilio; way; white; world; young cache: 8724.txt plain text: 8724.txt item: #26 of 26 id: 8725 author: Zola, Émile title: The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 5 date: None words: 51904 flesch: 69 summary: At last Pierre raised his eyes to the Vatican, but facing the piazza there was here merely a confused jumble of walls, amidst which only two gleams of light appeared on the floor of the papal apartments. so as to give Pierre time to breathe and recover himself somewhat before crossing the threshold of the sanctuary. keywords: book; cardinal; church; day; dear; death; end; eyes; face; father; god; good; hand; heart; holy; left; leo; life; love; man; moment; new; order; people; pierre; pope; priest; rome; room; silence; son; soul; things; thought; time; truth; work; world; xiii; young cache: 8725.txt plain text: 8725.txt