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...rpt: The twelfth of May, 1796, in north Italy, at Tavazzano, on the road from Lodi to Milan. The afternoon sun is blazing serenely over the plains of Lombardy, treating the Alps with respect and the anthills with indulgence, not incommoded by the basking of the swine and oxen in the villages nor hurt by its cool reception in the churches, but fiercely disdainful of two hor...

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...om Lodi to Milan. The afternoon sun is blazing serenely over the plains of Lombardy, treating the Alps with respect and the anthills with indulgence, ...

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...s thousands of pilgrims died of the plague on their way through war-ravaged Lombardy toward Rome, a spurious bull of Pope Clement VI from the year 13...

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...ereave him his lands with Genoese and other mighty warriors of Tuscany and Lombardy. And I shall send for them all that be subjects and allied to the ... ...ers, and sithen returned into Haut Almaine, and so over the mountains into Lombardy, and after, into Tuscany wherein was a city which in no wise would... ...e of Lorraine with his army, and the noblest men of Dolphiny, and lords of Lombardy, with the gar- rison of Godard, and Saracens of Southland, y-numbe... ...d his death was soon avenged. Thus was the battle ended, and many lords of Lombardy and Saracens left dead in the field. Then Sir Florence and Sir Gaw...

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...ound between vision and fancy. They lean as in a great flight forward upon Lombardy. The curtain of an early autumnal morning was everywhere lifted ar... ...n that point. I cannot trust him. I do not. But, if we make such a tide in Lombardy that his army must be drawn into it, is such an army to be refused... ... to show where Switzerland and Piedmont met, and Austria held her grasp on Lombardy; and “to this point we go to-night; yonder to-morrow; farther the ... ...irator since the day when the Austrians had the two fine Apples of Pomona, Lombardy and V enice, given them as fruits of peace. Luigi remembered 50 V... ...ona. The old Field-Marshal and chief commander of the Aus- trian forces in Lombardy, prompted by the counsels of his sagacious adlatus, the chief of t... ...a marked limit of his popu- lar customers. This isolation of the rulers of Lombardy had commenced in Milan, but, owing to particular causes, was not p... ... hours senseless in the wine-shop of one Battista—one of the many all over Lombardy who had pledged their allegiance to the Great Cat, thinking him sc... ...and more than once, to sail a fleet to our assistance across the plains of Lombardy, and I believe they will —probably in the watery epoch which is to... ...al page, and who had been nursed in the conception that Italy (or at least Lombardy) was a natural fief of Austria, allied by in- stinct and by intere...

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... the vine and olive terraces of Tuscany, or the narrowly-watched fields of Lombardy; the little meadows of Switzerland on which no stranger’s foot is ...

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... would say to him, “You, who have been in England …” He had been as far as Lombardy, and seen the shores of the Italian lakes. He read new books. Fina... ...and quite as rich as her hus- band, who has one of the largest fortunes in Lombardy. Their villa on the Lago Maggiore is one of the sights of Italy.” ...

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...er he had conquered France and Ger many, passed the Mont St. Bernard into Lombardy, and took Rome to his keeping. These mighty kings were my near kin... ...no further tarrying. From thence we can pass Mont St. Bernard, and overrun Lombardy. By moving swiftly we shall carry the war into the emperor’s own l...

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... those magnificent sheets of verdure which are the pride and the wealth of Lombardy. Gerard sent for an old and experienced foreman, who had already b... ... Switzerland. The system of irriga- tion, modelled on that of the farms in Lombardy, watered the earth evenly, and kept the surface as smooth as a car...

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...erri- tory, but nowhere does it seem a whit less Italian than the plain of Lombardy. When at last I motored away from Udine to the northern mountain f...

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...ke a green sea _90 The waveless plain of Lombardy, Bounded by the vaporous air, Islanded by cities fair; Underneath ...

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...ertain in Italy. “The battle of Marengo detained Napoleon on the plains of Lombardy until the 25th of June, but he reached Paris on the 2nd of July. I...

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... Essays and Other Papers – V olume Two nary feat, achieved the conquest of Lombardy in a single hour; but Charlemagne, without once risking the origin...

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...e Alemanni, who had been in motion since the time of Caracalla, broke into Lombardy, across the Rhætian Alps. The senate, left without aid from either...

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...of the open road; yesterday, perhaps, they were in Tyrol, and next week they will be far in Lombardy, while all we sick folk still simmer in our mount...

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...ned, unknown to fame) were seneschals and captains-general of Piedmont and Lombardy, grand admirals of the kingdom of Naples, and its ladies were soug...

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...othing? Not so: on the Twentieth morning of June, a large Tree of Liberty, Lombardy Poplar by kind, lies visibly tied on its car, in the Suburb-Antoin...

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... house, standing on a little elevation above it, and with a long avenue of Lombardy pop- lars leading from the south porch, the family entrance, to th...

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...ndless hill. Is, then, the crown too heavy that I wear? this Iron Crown of Lombardy. Yet is it bright with many a gem; I, the wearer, see not its far ... ...y years past, at various intervals, been found at the base of the Alps, in Lombardy, in France, in England, in Scotland, and in the States of Louisian...

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...n, better give the army to be made merchandise of by Venetian skippers and Lombardy pedlars, than trust it to the Grand Master of St. John.” “Well, th...

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...es, as in all places protected by a chain of mountains, in Piedmont and in Lombardy for instance, there are spots where the grass keeps green all the ...