smalto

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[1] "_Cola diritto, sopra il verde smalto mi fur moetrati gli spiriti magni che del verderli in me stesso 'n esalto_"

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  • The smalto sea heaved then sighed with the burdens of history. —  Qwaider Planet
  • [1] "_Cola diritto, sopra il verde smalto mi fur moetrati gli spiriti magni che del verderli in me stesso 'n esalto_" —  Confessions of a Book-Lover
  • When I lie in my cool light room on the garden level, I look across the bright grass -- il verde smalto -- to a great red rose bush in lavish disarray against the dark cypress. —  The Roadmender
  • We are, however, by no means certain that Virgil was happier on earth than he was "upon the green enamel" (_verde smalto_) in this place of quiet leisure which was the vestibule to Hell, but not Hell itself, and which, to some chosen souls, had already been a vestibule to the Palace of the Beatific —  Confessions of a Book-Lover
  • When Virgil and the poet were waiting in anxiety before the gates of Dis, when the Furies on the wall were tearing their breasts and crying, 'Venga Medusa, e si' l farem di smalto, 'suddenly across the hideous river came a sound like that which whirlwinds make among the shattered branches and bruised stems of forest-trees; and Dante, looking out with fear upon the foam and spray and vapour of the flood, saw thousands of the damned flying before the face of one who forded Styx with feet unwet. —  Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
 

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