The Bravo: A Venetian Story, Volym 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831 |
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... senator's daughter ? " " Do I remember the last famine ? The rogue did nothing but eat maccaroni , and swallow the lachrymæ christi , which the Dal- matian count had on freight . " " Poverino ! His gondola has been run down by an Ancona ...
... senator's daughter ? " " Do I remember the last famine ? The rogue did nothing but eat maccaroni , and swallow the lachrymæ christi , which the Dal- matian count had on freight . " " Poverino ! His gondola has been run down by an Ancona ...
Sida 12
... brig , than fall into the gripe of a Turk . - How is thy young master , Gino ? and is he likely to obtain his claims of the senate ? " " He cools himself in the Giudecca in the morning ; and if thou would'st know what he does 12 THE BRAVO .
... brig , than fall into the gripe of a Turk . - How is thy young master , Gino ? and is he likely to obtain his claims of the senate ? " " He cools himself in the Giudecca in the morning ; and if thou would'st know what he does 12 THE BRAVO .
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... senators would sooner lose their hopes of the horned bonnet , than lose him . Jacopo ! He knows more family secrets than the good Priore of San Marco himself , and he , poor man , is half his time in the confessional . " " Ay , they are ...
... senators would sooner lose their hopes of the horned bonnet , than lose him . Jacopo ! He knows more family secrets than the good Priore of San Marco himself , and he , poor man , is half his time in the confessional . " " Ay , they are ...
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... senator is seen farther than the spot upon a velvet jacket . If any one unworthy of your eccellenza's no- tice has dared to offend , here are Giorgio and I , ready , at any time , to shew how deeply we can feel an indignity which ...
... senator is seen farther than the spot upon a velvet jacket . If any one unworthy of your eccellenza's no- tice has dared to offend , here are Giorgio and I , ready , at any time , to shew how deeply we can feel an indignity which ...
Sida 56
... senate . Thou knowest , Gino , that I am- " Diamine ! There goes the clock of San Marco , and I tarry past my hour . If I am too late , the fault will rest with thee ! " " " Twill not be the first of thy oversights , which it has been ...
... senate . Thou knowest , Gino , that I am- " Diamine ! There goes the clock of San Marco , and I tarry past my hour . If I am too late , the fault will rest with thee ! " " " Twill not be the first of thy oversights , which it has been ...
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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.