The Bravo: A Venetian Story, Volym 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831 |
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... appeared to attend some beck of authority ere he quitted the spot . A silken jacket , in whose tissue flowers of the gayest colours were interwoven , the falling collar of scarlet , the bright velvet cap with armorial bearings ...
... appeared to attend some beck of authority ere he quitted the spot . A silken jacket , in whose tissue flowers of the gayest colours were interwoven , the falling collar of scarlet , the bright velvet cap with armorial bearings ...
Sida 22
... appeared to think the mat- ter exhausted . " Stefano Milano , " he added , after a mo- ment of pause , " there are things in Venice which he , who would eat his maccaroni in peace , would do well to forget . Let thy errand in port be ...
... appeared to think the mat- ter exhausted . " Stefano Milano , " he added , after a mo- ment of pause , " there are things in Venice which he , who would eat his maccaroni in peace , would do well to forget . Let thy errand in port be ...
Sida 31
... appeared to lend more attention to the discourse , which , until now , on his part , had been commenced in the listless manner with which a superior encourages an indulged de- pendant . " La Bella Sorrentina ! Have I not reason to know ...
... appeared to lend more attention to the discourse , which , until now , on his part , had been commenced in the listless manner with which a superior encourages an indulged de- pendant . " La Bella Sorrentina ! Have I not reason to know ...
Sida 41
... appeared to struggle with deep distaste for the office he was required to perform ; and there was even some manifestation of a more principled reluctance , in his hesitating yet humble manner . ́ If Don Camillo noted the air and ...
... appeared to struggle with deep distaste for the office he was required to perform ; and there was even some manifestation of a more principled reluctance , in his hesitating yet humble manner . ́ If Don Camillo noted the air and ...
Sida 50
... appearance , are called canals , but which , in truth , are no more than so many small natural branches of the sea . On the margin of these passages , the walls of the dwellings arise lite- rally from out of the water , since economy of ...
... appearance , are called canals , but which , in truth , are no more than so many small natural branches of the sea . On the margin of these passages , the walls of the dwellings arise lite- rally from out of the water , since economy of ...
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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
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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.