Rose, Blanche, and Violet, Volume I by George Henry Lewes

"Eccovi un de' compositor di libri bene meriti di republica, postillatori, glosatori, construttori, additatori, scoliatori, traduttori! .,. . O bella etimologia, e di mio proprio Marte or ora _deprompta_! Or dunque quindi _prope jam versus movo_ il gresso, per che voglio notarla _majoribus literis_ nel mio _propriarum elucubrationum libro_. " -- GIORDANO BRUNO. _Candelajo_.

During this conversation between the lovers, another pair of undeclared lovers were standing on the steps of the terrace, "talking of lovely things that conquer death," and yielding themselves up to the luxury of a _tête-à-tête_, wherein glances were more eloquent than tongues, and hearts fluttered like new-caught birds, at the most seemingly insignificant phrase.