The Bravo: A Venetian Story, Volym 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831 |
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Sida ii
... less , depends on a prin- ciple entirely different from our own . Here the immunities do not proceed from , but they are granted to the government , being , in other words , concessions of natural rights made by the people to the state ...
... less , depends on a prin- ciple entirely different from our own . Here the immunities do not proceed from , but they are granted to the government , being , in other words , concessions of natural rights made by the people to the state ...
Sida iv
... less likely to be their subjects than the inhabitants of a single town or county . If to this defi- nition we should add , as an infallible test of the genus , that a true republic is a government of which all others are jealous and ...
... less likely to be their subjects than the inhabitants of a single town or county . If to this defi- nition we should add , as an infallible test of the genus , that a true republic is a government of which all others are jealous and ...
Sida 22
... less than a hundred will buy a stroke of his art . Your blows , for two sequins , leave a man leisure to tell tales , or even to say his prayers half the time . " " Jacopo ! " ejaculated the other , with an emphasis which seemed to be a ...
... less than a hundred will buy a stroke of his art . Your blows , for two sequins , leave a man leisure to tell tales , or even to say his prayers half the time . " " Jacopo ! " ejaculated the other , with an emphasis which seemed to be a ...
Sida 38
... less viva- city of temperament than is wont , at his years . " " Eccellenza , yes . ” " One who resorts but little with his fellows , and who is rather noted for the silence and industry with which he attends to his concerns , than for ...
... less viva- city of temperament than is wont , at his years . " " Eccellenza , yes . ” " One who resorts but little with his fellows , and who is rather noted for the silence and industry with which he attends to his concerns , than for ...
Sida 40
... less disposed to silence . " " Eccellenza , yes . " Don Camillo smiled ; but the gleam of hu- mour gave way to a look of grave and anxious thought . " As thou knowest the person of him I have named , our affair is simple . Take this ...
... less disposed to silence . " " Eccellenza , yes . " Don Camillo smiled ; but the gleam of hu- mour gave way to a look of grave and anxious thought . " As thou knowest the person of him I have named , our affair is simple . Take this ...
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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.