The Bravo: A Venetian Story, Volym 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831 |
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... noble range of edifices called the Procuratories , the massive pile of the Ducal Palace , the most ancient christian church , the granite columns of the piazzetta , the triumphal masts of the great square , and the giddy tower of the ...
... noble range of edifices called the Procuratories , the massive pile of the Ducal Palace , the most ancient christian church , the granite columns of the piazzetta , the triumphal masts of the great square , and the giddy tower of the ...
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... noble drowned , nor any Jew hanged ? " " Nothing of that much interest - except the calamity which befel Pietro . Thou rememberest Pietrillo ? he who crossed into Dalmatia with thee once , as a supernumerary , the time he was suspected ...
... noble drowned , nor any Jew hanged ? " " Nothing of that much interest - except the calamity which befel Pietro . Thou rememberest Pietrillo ? he who crossed into Dalmatia with thee once , as a supernumerary , the time he was suspected ...
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... too , to say his prayers ? " " He was coming back after having - but what matters it in what canal a young noble sighs away the night ! We happened to be near when the Ancona - man performed his feat : while THE BRAVO . 13.
... too , to say his prayers ? " " He was coming back after having - but what matters it in what canal a young noble sighs away the night ! We happened to be near when the Ancona - man performed his feat : while THE BRAVO . 13.
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... noble , Master Stefano , with this small difference - that the last only knows what the sinner wishes to reveal , while the first sometimes knows more . I can find a safer , if not a more honest employment , than to be running about ...
... noble , Master Stefano , with this small difference - that the last only knows what the sinner wishes to reveal , while the first sometimes knows more . I can find a safer , if not a more honest employment , than to be running about ...
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... noble , exhibiting that strong and manly outline which is so characteristic of the finer class of the Italian countenance . Out of this striking array of features gleamed an eye , that was full of brilliancy , meaning , and passion . As ...
... noble , exhibiting that strong and manly outline which is so characteristic of the finer class of the Italian countenance . Out of this striking array of features gleamed an eye , that was full of brilliancy , meaning , and passion . As ...
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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.