The Bravo: A Tale

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W. A. Townsend, 1859 - 460 sidor
 

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Sida 409 - There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; They hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; And the servant is free from his master.
Sida 9 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Sida 383 - PRISONER OF CHILLON. MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd — forbidden fare...
Sida 287 - Day after day, beat unrelentingly; Turning all things to dust, and scorching up The brain, till Reason fled, and the wild yell And wilder laugh burst out on every side, Answering each other as in mockery !
Sida 114 - The fisher came From his green islet, bringing o'er the waves His wife and little one ; the husbandman From the Firm Land, with many a friar and nun, And village-maiden, her first flight from home, Crowding the common ferry.
Sida 100 - ... fisherman of the Lido is the hero. The following sketch will give him identity with the reader. " Of those who were reluctantly compelled to turn their thoughts from the levities of the moment to the cares of the morrow, and were departing in crowds to humble roofs, and hard pillows, there remained one who continued to occupy a spot near the junction of the two squares, as motionless as if his naked feet grew to the stone on which he stood. It was Antonio. " The position of the fisherman brought...

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