The Bravo: A Venetian Story, Volym 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831 |
Från bokens innehåll
Resultat 1-5 av 33
Sida 3
... fortunes of the place ; but at the period of our tale , the city of the isles , though no longer mistress of the Mediterranean , nor even of the Adriatic , was still rich and powerful . Her influence was felt in the councils of the ...
... fortunes of the place ; but at the period of our tale , the city of the isles , though no longer mistress of the Mediterranean , nor even of the Adriatic , was still rich and powerful . Her influence was felt in the councils of the ...
Sida 10
... fortune brings . If my soles are to be shod with blows , the honest priest of Sant ' Agata will be cheated of a penitent . I have bargained with the good curato , that all such accidental- calamities shall go in the general account of ...
... fortune brings . If my soles are to be shod with blows , the honest priest of Sant ' Agata will be cheated of a penitent . I have bargained with the good curato , that all such accidental- calamities shall go in the general account of ...
Sida 15
... fortune with the oranges , in the last voyage , caused thee to denounce the place . " The Calabrian laid a finger on one cheek , and drew the skin down , in a manner to give a droll expression to his dark , comic eye , while the whole ...
... fortune with the oranges , in the last voyage , caused thee to denounce the place . " The Calabrian laid a finger on one cheek , and drew the skin down , in a manner to give a droll expression to his dark , comic eye , while the whole ...
Sida 30
... , commanded by a cer- tain Stefano Milano , son of an ancient servant of Sant ' Agata . The bark is none of the worst for speed , and it has some reputation for beauty . It ought to be of happy fortune , too , 30 THE BRAVO .
... , commanded by a cer- tain Stefano Milano , son of an ancient servant of Sant ' Agata . The bark is none of the worst for speed , and it has some reputation for beauty . It ought to be of happy fortune , too , 30 THE BRAVO .
Sida 31
A Venetian Story James Fenimore Cooper. It ought to be of happy fortune , too , for the good curato recommended it , with many a devout prayer , to the Virgin , and to San Fran- cesco . " The noble appeared to lend more attention to the ...
A Venetian Story James Fenimore Cooper. It ought to be of happy fortune , too , for the good curato recommended it , with many a devout prayer , to the Virgin , and to San Fran- cesco . " The noble appeared to lend more attention to the ...
Vanliga ord och fraser
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.