The Bravo: A Venetian Story, Volym 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831 |
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... Stefano ! They said thou hadst fallen into the gripe of the devils of Barbary , and that thou wast planting flowers for an infidel with thy hands , and watering them with thy tears ! " The answer was in the harsher dialect of Ca- labria ...
... Stefano ! They said thou hadst fallen into the gripe of the devils of Barbary , and that thou wast planting flowers for an infidel with thy hands , and watering them with thy tears ! " The answer was in the harsher dialect of Ca- labria ...
Sida 8
... Stefano , though none is bolder among the mountains of Calabria when thy fe- luca is once safely drawn upon the beach ! " The mariner cast a half - comic , half - serious glance upward at the image of the patron saint , ere he replied ...
... Stefano , though none is bolder among the mountains of Calabria when thy fe- luca is once safely drawn upon the beach ! " The mariner cast a half - comic , half - serious glance upward at the image of the patron saint , ere he replied ...
Sida 9
... Stefano ? " “ I ! —I was more like thy lion , here , with some small additions of chains and muzzles . " " As was seen by thy felucca's speed ? " 66 Cospetto ! I wished myself a knight of San Giovanni a thousand times during the chase ...
... Stefano ? " “ I ! —I was more like thy lion , here , with some small additions of chains and muzzles . " " As was seen by thy felucca's speed ? " 66 Cospetto ! I wished myself a knight of San Giovanni a thousand times during the chase ...
Sida 16
... Stefano , with this small difference - that the last only knows what the sinner wishes to reveal , while the first sometimes knows more . I can find a safer , if not a more honest employment , than to be running about with my master's ...
... Stefano , with this small difference - that the last only knows what the sinner wishes to reveal , while the first sometimes knows more . I can find a safer , if not a more honest employment , than to be running about with my master's ...
Sida 21
... Two sequins ! " rejoined the Calabrian , en- forcing his meaning by a significant grimace . " Santa Madonna ! Thou forgettest , Stefano , that not even the confessor has any trouble with a job in which he has been employed . THE BRAVO . 21.
... Two sequins ! " rejoined the Calabrian , en- forcing his meaning by a significant grimace . " Santa Madonna ! Thou forgettest , Stefano , that not even the confessor has any trouble with a job in which he has been employed . THE BRAVO . 21.
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66 Signore affair Agata Annina answered Antonio art thou bark beauty Bella Sorrentina beneath betrayed boat Bravo Bridge of Sighs Bucentaur Calabrian canals Carmelite cast companion concealed countenance crowd Dalmatia doge Doge's palace Don Camillo Monforte Donna Florinda Donna Violetta Dost thou Duca duty Eccellenza face father favour feelings feluca fisherman fortune Gino Giudecca glance glided gondolier hand happy hath honour hour interest jacket Jacopo justice known Lagunes less Lido look manner Mark mask master Neapolitan never noble observed padrone palace passed patricians Piazzetta pleasure port prince prize quay regatta republic Rialto San Marco San Teodoro secret seen senate sequins shew shouts signet Signor Gradenigo Signor Roderigo stranger struggle thee thine Thou art Thou hast thou knowest thou sayest thou wilt thou wouldst throng thy errand tion truth uttered Venetian Venice voice waterman young youth
Populära avsnitt
Sida 1 - 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 114 - Antony and Cleopatra. THE silent movement of the hearse-like gondola soon brought the fair Venetian and her female Mentor to the water-gate of the noble, who had been intrusted, by the senate, with the especial guardianship of the person of the heiress. It was a residence of more than common gloom, possessing all the solemn but stately magnificence which then characterized the private dwellings of the patricians in that city of riches and pride.