The Bravo: A Venetian Story, Volym 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831 |
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... smile of the harpist , cries of water - sellers , cowls of monks , plumage of warriors , hum of voices and the universal movement and bustle , added The hur- to the more permanent objects of the place , rendered 2 THE BRAVO .
... smile of the harpist , cries of water - sellers , cowls of monks , plumage of warriors , hum of voices and the universal movement and bustle , added The hur- to the more permanent objects of the place , rendered 2 THE BRAVO .
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... movement peculiar to that description of boat . Gino , who , as superior over his fellow , stood perched on the little arched deck in the stern , pushed his oar with accustomed readiness and skill , now causing the light vessel to sheer ...
... movement peculiar to that description of boat . Gino , who , as superior over his fellow , stood perched on the little arched deck in the stern , pushed his oar with accustomed readiness and skill , now causing the light vessel to sheer ...
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... movement to reply . " This may be so , or not . Unmask , that I may judge by thy countenance if what thou sayest be true . " " By your good leave , most worthy and ho- nourable Signore , and if it be equally agreeable to you and my ...
... movement to reply . " This may be so , or not . Unmask , that I may judge by thy countenance if what thou sayest be true . " " By your good leave , most worthy and ho- nourable Signore , and if it be equally agreeable to you and my ...
Sida 77
... movements for one little used to negociations of this sort . Here is a ring whose signet may help us to understand each other . " The stranger took the jewel , and holding the stone in a manner to receive the light of the moon , he ...
... movements for one little used to negociations of this sort . Here is a ring whose signet may help us to understand each other . " The stranger took the jewel , and holding the stone in a manner to receive the light of the moon , he ...
Sida 84
... movement , at the sound of his footstep , brought the rays of the moon full upon the calm countenance and searching eye of the very man he sought . The first impulse of the gondolier , like that of all the others he had seen approach ...
... movement , at the sound of his footstep , brought the rays of the moon full upon the calm countenance and searching eye of the very man he sought . The first impulse of the gondolier , like that of all the others he had seen approach ...
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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.