Outside it was so garish with its coloured marbles, under the southern sky; outside, too, one's ears were filled with all the shattering noises in which Florence is an adept; and then, one step, and behold nothing but vast and silent gloom.

They look contented also: Florence clearly is the best place to be born in, to live in, and to die in.

But one thing is certainthat without him Florence would be the poorer by many beautiful works.

Florence became a hot-bed of immorality and a sink of iniquity.

Florence, Pisa, Venice, Genoa, Marseilles, became centres of wealth and political importance.

But Florence is certainly no longer Firenze la

To my wife, whose enjoyment of Italian art was intense, Florence was an ideal residence; and on some accounts I still regret the circumstances which drove us out of the lily city,to me still the most desirable residence I have ever known, when one is able to adapt one's self to the life there.

Michelangelo was no doubt the greatest individualist in the whole history of art, and everything that he did grips the memory in a vice; but Florence without Michelangelo would still be very nearly Florence, whereas Florence without Brunelleschi is unthinkable.

But then he was anxious to marry Florence because Florence was English.

Mr. Dombey came down to Brighton every Sunday, and Florence was her brother's constant companion.

"Divine Florence is not half so disrespectful of a young lady as Bird of Paradise.

Florence was only primus inter paresgreatest among many that were great.

In fact, directly one leaves the big streets Florence is still fifteenth century.

Florence will certainly be a refuge for him.

In the thirteenth century Florence was the scene of continual strife between the Guelfs and Ghibellines, but she not only continued to develop in material prosperity, but also attained to intellectual activities whereby in the next century she gained a higher distinction.

Florence was to his eyes really the sort of a girl whom a man in his position ought to marry.

Florence became the capital of Italy in 1865, on the day of the sixth anniversary of the birth of Dante.

The Grand Duke was thunderstruck, but at once he recognised the emphatic importance of secrecy; for, as Vincenzio Borghini quaintly said: "Florence was the greatest market in the world for tissues and materials of all kinds, and full of evil eyes, and ears, and tongues!"

Fair Florence was stillas she will ever be"The City of the Lily"; but the blue and silver emblematic gigliothe modestly unfolding fragrant iris of the unsophisticated countryside, drooped before the flaming, passionate tiger-lily of the formal garden of debauchery, with its pungent odour and its secretive, incurled scarlet petalssplashed with the blacks and yellows of crime and greed!

She thinks of her own nephew, and as long as Florence is Florence Mountjoy there will be for her the chance.

Florence is a girl who, when she says that she loves a man, means it.

Malatesta Baglioni, albeit he went about muttering that Florence "was no stable for mules" (alluding to the fact that all the Medici were bastards), approved of the articles, and showed by his conduct that he had long been plotting treason.

"Florence was a devilFlorence was divine.

For though all over Italy traces of the miracle are apparent, Florence was its very home and still can point to the greatest number of its achievements.

These monuments are fragments of the throne Once reared by genius on this spot so fair, When Florence was the seat of arts and early fame.