Isabella Gonzaga, Marchesa of Mantua, by way of congratulation, sent Cesare a carnivalgift of a hundred pretty masks in coloured silk.
On a winter's day towards the close of the carnival of 1496, shortly after noon, Fra Girolamo was writing the account of a vision which had lately appeared to him.
The carnival was closing quietly in general, but in some places the sport was still kept up.
But I must hasten on; the Carnival is beginning, and I must not lose any portion of it.
I must however be brief, for an hour hence I go to join the Carnival in the Corso.
I came down again in very bad humour, and thought that the Carnival had commenced rather unpropitiously.
Yes; as the music changes, Like a prismatic glass, It takes the light and ranges Through all the moods that pass; Dissects the common carnival Of passions and regrets, And gives the world a glimpse of all The colors it forgets.
And there, as the music changes, The song runs round again; Once more it turns and ranges Through all its joy and pain: Dissects the common carnival Of passions and regrets; And the wheeling world remembers all The wheeling song forgets.
After the usual bull-fight and festivities in the Piazza on Carnival Thursday the Doge gave a sumptuous banquet and dance in the palace.
An occasional rocket still broke with a golden shower over the lake, and she now discussed the carnival and declared the gondola inferior for grace to the American canoe.
The action of the play takes place at carnival time, which gives occasion for some lively scenes from national life.
But this affair is after all only a little carnival jest.
Another favorite amusement during the carnival is to suspend from the balconies a strong bag filled with fragments of glass and pottery.
Snow-shoeing is immensely popular in Montreal, as all visitors to the winter carnival well know.
Masked or unmasked, the carnival skaters have a joyous time, and the hours steal away with cruel haste.
A carnival on ice--and every rink has one or more during the season--affords a rarely interesting and brilliant spectacle.
They are making arrangements for the carnival of death that they propose holding.
The colours of the Carnival were red and rose, and the shops around were gay with dominoes of those hues.
Madame Carnival was the first gigantic figure to appear amid the glare of the great braziers of crimson fire.
Through the warm sunny reign of King Carnival Zertho and his handsome companion were prominent figures everywhere, although the Captain, who had grown as dull and dispirited as his daughter had become gay and reckless, seldom accompanied them.
Carnival is not fresh to me, but it is always amusing.
In those spring days Nice is verily in Carnival mood.
I have now taken down Carnival in persistent short draughts--which is how I took S.
Besides, who knew whether he might not hear a tale or two to the disadvantage of little Concha Cabezos, who had flouted him so sadly at last carnival and made a score of girls laugh at him upon the open Rambla.
Never more would he sing a lusty serenade beneath a lady's window, never more throw his cloak about his mouth and follow a promising adventure at a carnival masquerade.
It was the vacation time--the midsummer carnival weeks of the wilderness people.
Here Cooper and his family had some gay carnival days with their various friends.
It was "a gay and motley scene, blending the harvest-home with a dash of the carnival spirit.
Save that it is more vulgar, it might be Nice, or the Riviera, or Interkalken, or any other of those towns of carnival whither the bad taste of the whole world comes to disport itself in the so-called fashionable seasons.
In their harmonious and endlessly restless groups, the gowns a la franque and the poor hats of carnival are still the exception.
He has given two grand entertainments since the carnival commenced, to which nothing was wanting but people to enjoy them.
In the Carnivalof 1511 a wonderfully grim pageant was shown to the Florentines, and it was ominous of coming events.
The carnival came to an end with a series of water sports.
Betty was finding out more about the carnival when the start would be made, the course and other details.
The carnivalhad been a great success and many congratulations were showered on Messrs.
He resided a year in Florence before he went to Venice, where he had his 'Agrippina' performed at the theatre of St. Gio Crisostomo, during the Carnival in 1710.
King first got back to Berlin, to enlighten the eyes of the Carnival a little, as his wont had been.
His Carnivalthe Crown-Prince passes naturally at Berlin.
Lena May McCauley "Miss McCauley has proved in this book her right to the beauties of nature, for the book delights by its charm of description, its riot of color, and its carnival of blossom.
That was also Gregory's point of view; and even in his joy at finding the coast clear, he paused to say, "I am sorry that Fran seems to have lost all reason over this carnival company.
I'm the famous Fran Nonpareil, and mycarnival company has showed in most of the towns and cities of the United States.
But actually, old man, this carnival is good for my heart.
There was to be a Street Carnivalbeginning July first.
When the mayor was trying to decide what carnival company they'd have for the street fair, I told him about this show, and that's why it's here.
I saw it all; this carnival has put new life into me--here!
