The bitter words of this sonnet will not seem unmerited to those who have studied Italian poetry in the Cinque Centothe refined playthings of verse, the romances, and the burlesque nonsense, which amused a corrupt though highly cultivated age.

Old Richard Fauconbridge, Knight of the Cross, Lord of the Cinque Ports, with his noble wife, Dame Marian, Countess of West-Hereford, Offer their duties at this royal meeting.

and, even out of sight of land, what had he but a flat watery horizon about him, nothing comparable to the vast o'er-curtaining sky, his familiar object, seen daily without dread or amazement?Who, in similar circumstances, has not been tempted to exclaim with Charoba, in the poem of Gebir, Is this the mighty ocean?is this all? I love town, or country; but this detestable Cinque Port is neither.

"A comb of rose diamonds, form D 5, surmounted by a large rose surrounded by smaller ones, and a cinque-foil in roses, the chatons alternated, below a band of roses.

Much as critics have written, and with justice, upon the classical tendencies of the Italian Renaissance, they have failed to point out that the Paganism of the Cinque Cento rarely involved a servile imitation of the antique or a sympathetic intelligence of its spirit.

He had a great many workmen in his service at this period, and employed celebrated masters in their crafts, as Tasso and Carota for wood-carving, Battista del Cinque and Ciapino for carpentry, upon the various fittings of the library.

Cinque their chief, spoke with great fluency in his native language; and his action and manner were very animated and graceful.

In its details, however, the extravagancies of the middle ages, and the often elegant frivolities of the cinque cento period, have been avoided, and the breadth and simplicity of Greek models have still been followed.

This immunity, however, deprived them of the privileges which the people of the adjacent towns enjoyed; and was probably the true reason, why this town did not obtain a place among those called Cinque ports.

Cellini was essentially an Italian of the Cinque-cento.

SEE Rolland, Romain. CINQUE, NICOLO, comp.

Compilatore: Nicolo Cinque.

Nicolo Cinque (A); 1Oct56; R177488.

Nicolo Cinque (A); 1Oct56; R177488.

He had been on the island four years and four months, being left there by Captain Stradling in the Cinque-ports, his name was Alexander Selkirk, a Scotchman, who had been master of the Cinque-ports, a ship that came here last with Captain Dampier, who told me, that this was the best man in her.

He had been on the island four years and four months, being left there by Captain Stradling in the Cinque-ports, his name was Alexander Selkirk, a Scotchman, who had been master of the Cinque-ports, a ship that came here last with Captain Dampier, who told me, that this was the best man in her.

The cinque-foil cloister arches, the fillets that bind the clustered shafts of the pillars, the leaf ornaments of the plinths at their base all speak of a luxuriant sense of beauty and grace, of a spirit of pure and admirable artistic work.

Or stia ciascuno a tutti gli atti intento, Che cinque sono; e questo è l' argomento.

On her left breast A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson drop I' the bottom of the cowslip.

ROMNEY, NEW (1), one of the old CINQUE PORTS (q. v.), in S. Kent, 8 m. SW. of Hythe; the sea has receded from its shores, leaving it no longer a port; as centre of a fine pastoral district it has an important sheep fair; the little village of Old Romney lies 1½ m. inland.

from London, one of the CINQUE PORTS (q. v.); the retiral of the sea has left it now 2 m. inland; has a fine Norman and Early English church.

TENTERDEN, a market-town in Kent, once a Cinque Port; the steeple of the church of which is reported to have been the cause of the Goodwin Sands, the stones intended for the dyke which kept the sea off having been used instead to repair the church.

The broad terrace walk was overgrown with weeds; the stone steps and the carved balusters were broken in places, and covered with moss; the once smooth lawn was unconscious of the scythe; the parterres had lost their quaint devices; and the knots of flowerstre-foil, cinque-foil, diamond, and cross-bowwere no longer distinguishable in their original shapes.

So we punctuated the lovely journey among the Italian hills, and between their admirable waterways, by hopping off the train for coffee every time they said "Cinque minuti."

" "Not always," said Jenny; "not in Italy in the cinque cento, nor in England under Elizabeth.

On one of these occasions, soon after his mother's visit, a friend who went with him sank in the water, and James lost his own life by efforts to save him.

Then she sank down into a crouching attitude in the big arm-chair, her eyes-wide open and staring out at the red lights from the furnaces that flickered in the sky.

He clutched the chain by which the cone hung, and the thing sank an infinitesimal amount as he struck it.

I left the boat pitching, and all of them staring down into water after me, as my head sank down into the weeds and blackness that lay about the mast.

And now the helpless princess sprang up, and now she sank down in stupor; and now she shrank in terror, and now she wept and wailed aloud.

" He raised himself on one elbow, watching Celia's shocked white face for a moment or two, then wearily turned toward the window and sank back on his pillows.

" Celia sank down on the bed's edge, the candle trembling in her hand.

Berkley ran with them on foot, one hand grasping a friendly stirrup, until the horse he clung to halted abruptly, quivering all over; then sank down by the buttocks with a shuddering scream.

A startled whippoorwill flashed into shadowy night from the rail as he laid his hand upon it, and, searching for the seat which Letty's invalid had built for her, he sank down, burying his head in his hands.

But he heard nothing until she sank down on the flooring at his feet and dropped her head, face downward, on his knees.

The first mate and Ned were soon in the captain's gig, and shortly afterward the boat with the hole in her filled and sank.

ejaculated Bob, and his heart sank like a lump of lead in his bosom.

gasped Mr. Tarbill, and sank on his knees.

But as, believing herself alone, she sank back on the seatat the moment that the horses plunged forwardher hand, extended to save herself, touched another hand: and the sudden contact in the dark, conveying to her the certainty that she had a companion, with all the possibilities the fact conjured up, more than excused an involuntary cry.

Mrs. Masterson sobbed querulously, or now and again uttered a wailing complaint: the other two stood sank in bitter retrospect.

His lordship, led to the head of the table, sank without a word into the chair placed for him, and propping his elbow on the table and his head on his hand, groaned aloud.

" He stopped and sank wretchedly down in a chair and covered his face with his hands.

In debating this point, I suppose that I lost sight of my objective, for I sank to sleep.

" Then Mr. Grey left the room, boiling with anger in that he, with his legal knowledge and determination to do right, had been so utterly thrown aside; while Mr. Scarborough sank exhausted by the effort he had gone through.

We made a boat of one of the wagon beds, and had a regular ferry, and when they pulled the wagons over they sank below the surface but came out all right.

He sank down, shoulders under, in the snow.

The invalid's heart sank like lead.

And Raoul sank the artist and bridegroom in the historian, and told him.

Even thus the vision of the Aphrodite sank into the dream of a Venus.

Egypt was the land of a religion which had won a high conception of the Divine unity; a religion which was scientific in its forms of thought, and earnestly moral in its spirit; but which failed to keep distinct in mind the order of nature from the Being on whom it reposes, and thus sank into the dreamy pantheism of its cultured classes, and the poetic polytheisms of its people.