Stories From the Italian Poets : With Lives of the Writers 1
The book Stories From the Italian Poets : With Lives of the Writers 1 was written by author Boiardo, Matteo Maria, 1440 Or 41-1494 Here you can read free online of Stories From the Italian Poets : With Lives of the Writers 1 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Stories From the Italian Poets : With Lives of the Writers 1 a good or bad book?
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We were now all awake; and the time was at hand when they brought us bread, and we had all dreamt dreams which made us anxious. At that moment I heard the key of the horrible tower turn in the lock of the door below, and fasten it. I looked at my children, and said not a word. T did not weep. I made a strong effort upon the soul within me. But my little Anselm said, ' Father, why do you look so ? Is any thing the matter ?' Nevertheless I did not weep, nor say a word all the day, nor the night t...hat followed. In the morning a ray of light fell upon us through the window of our sad prison, and I beheld in those four little faces the likeness of my own face, and then I began to gnaw my hands for misery. My children, thinking I did it for hunger, raised themselves on the floor, and said, * Father, we should be less miserable if you would eat our own flesh. It was you that gave it us. Take it again.' Then I sat still, in order not to make them unhappier: and that 144 THE ITALIAN PILGRIm's PROGRESS.
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