The Bravo: A Venetian Story, Volym 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831 |
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... crowd the mind as the eye gazes at this rare relic of the past . As fit companions to this edifice the other peculiar ornaments of the place stood at hand , The base of the campanile lay in shadow , but a hundred feet of its grey summit ...
... crowd the mind as the eye gazes at this rare relic of the past . As fit companions to this edifice the other peculiar ornaments of the place stood at hand , The base of the campanile lay in shadow , but a hundred feet of its grey summit ...
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... , habitually cast on a multitude . It turned , with the same jealous keenness , on the face of the next it encoun- tered , and by the time the steady and well balanced form was lost in the crowd , that quick THE BRAVO . 19.
... , habitually cast on a multitude . It turned , with the same jealous keenness , on the face of the next it encoun- tered , and by the time the steady and well balanced form was lost in the crowd , that quick THE BRAVO . 19.
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A Venetian Story James Fenimore Cooper. balanced form was lost in the crowd , that quick and glowing eye had gleamed , in the same rapid and uneasy manner , on twenty others . Neither the gondolier , nor the mariner of Calabria spoke ...
A Venetian Story James Fenimore Cooper. balanced form was lost in the crowd , that quick and glowing eye had gleamed , in the same rapid and uneasy manner , on twenty others . Neither the gondolier , nor the mariner of Calabria spoke ...
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... crowd without . A halberdier paced the open gallery at the head of the Giant's Stairs , and , here and there , the footfall of other sentinels might be heard among the hollow and ponderous arches of the long corridors . No light was ...
... crowd without . A halberdier paced the open gallery at the head of the Giant's Stairs , and , here and there , the footfall of other sentinels might be heard among the hollow and ponderous arches of the long corridors . No light was ...
Sida 79
... pursuit . Fright- ened at the loss of his master's signet , however , the indiscreet but well - intentioned gondolier rushed into the crowd , and tried in vain to select the delinquent from among a thousand masks . " THE BRAVO , 79.
... pursuit . Fright- ened at the loss of his master's signet , however , the indiscreet but well - intentioned gondolier rushed into the crowd , and tried in vain to select the delinquent from among a thousand masks . " THE BRAVO , 79.
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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.