20 examples of leopardi in sentences

[Footnote 1: Leopardi.]

They were very little things that told her of his sadnessan unfinished sentence ending in a dash, the fall of half a dozen harmonious words that were like a beautiful verse and vaguely reminded her of Leopardi's poetrysmall touches here and there which had either never slipped from his pen before, or which she had never noticed.

In the very year when Byron witnessed the collapse of the Carbonari rebellion, Leopardi, as Mr. Trevelyan tells us, wrote to his sister on her marriage: "The children you will have must be either cowards or unhappy; choose the unhappy."

But through that dark gate of unhappiness which Leopardi named as the one choice for all but cowards, led the thin path that freedom must always take.

However, opposed as I am to the doctrines of Schopenhauer and Leopardi, I will admit that the shores of the Caspian did seem rather gloomy and dispiriting.

Among the bronze-founders it is enough to name Ghiberti, Antonio Filarete, Antonio Pollajuolo, Donatello and his pupil Bertoldo, Andrea Riccio, the master of the candelabrum in S. Antonio at Padua, Jacopo Sansovino, the master of the door of the sacristy in S. Mark's at Venice, Alessandro Leopardi, the master of the standard-pedestals of the Piazza of S. Mark's.

The work was completed, and the pedestal was supplied by Alessandro Leopardi.

To Verocchio, profiting by the example of Donatello's "Gattamelata," must be assigned the general conception of this statue; but the breath of life that animates both horse and rider, the richness of detail that enhances the massive grandeur of the group, and the fiery spirit of its style of execution were due to the Venetian genius of Leopardi.

The severe and cautious style of Donatello, after gaining freedom and fervour from Leopardi, was adapted to the ideal presentation of dramatic passion by Lionardo.

Whole families, like the Bregniclasses, like the Lombardischools, like that of Alessandro Leopardi, worked together on the monumental sculpture of S. Zanipolo.

Alessandro Leopardi after 1522 Antonio Pollajuolo 1429 1498 Piero Pollajuolo 1441 1489?

Many foreign ladies hunt for it in order to put flowers on the sepulcher of a hunch-back who made verses,Giacomo Leopardi.

"Do you know," he says in a letter, "three great pessimists were in Italy at the same timeByron, Leopardi, and myself!

CONTENTS: I. GIACOMO LEOPARDI AND HIS WRITINGS.

HEYSE, PAUL JOHANN, German poet and novelist, born at Berlin; in 1854 he settled at Münich, where he enjoyed the patronage of King Max of Bavaria; he has been a voluminous writer of popular novelettes, novels, dramas, and narrative poems, besides which he has executed translations of Leopardi, Giusti, and other Italian authors; b. 1830.

LEOPARDI, GIACOMO, modern Italian poet, born near Ancona; a precocious genius; an omnivorous reader as a boy, and devoted to literature; of a weakly constitution, he became a confirmed invalid, and died suddenly; had sceptical leanings; wrote lyrics inspired by a certain sombre melancholy (1788-1837).

RECANATI (6), a pretty Italian town, 15 m. S. of the Adriatic port Ancona, the birthplace of Leopardi; has a Gothic cathedral.

Besides, he always preferred Dante to Virgil, and Leopardi to Horace.

Everything is very neat about him and very quiet, so that you would hardly think he was an artist after all; and he talks but little, though he can talk very well when he likes, for he has not forgotten his Dante nor his Leopardi.

Like our own dear Leopardi, I loved not the woman, but the angel which is the type of all women, and whom not finding I perished miserably as to my heart.

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