The Bravo: A Venetian Story, Volym 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831 |
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Sida 9
... thy feet warmed with the thought of the bastinado , caro mio ? " " I have run too often barefoot over our Ca labrian mountains , to tingle at the sole with every B 3 THE BRAVO . 9 about, between Stromboli and Sicily; but, Ali ...
... thy feet warmed with the thought of the bastinado , caro mio ? " " I have run too often barefoot over our Ca labrian mountains , to tingle at the sole with every B 3 THE BRAVO . 9 about, between Stromboli and Sicily; but, Ali ...
Sida 21
... thought to have more custom than he who has just gone up the piazzetta . ” " Two sequins ! " rejoined the Calabrian , en- forcing his meaning by a significant grimace . " Santa Madonna ! Thou forgettest , Stefano , that not even the ...
... thought to have more custom than he who has just gone up the piazzetta . ” " Two sequins ! " rejoined the Calabrian , en- forcing his meaning by a significant grimace . " Santa Madonna ! Thou forgettest , Stefano , that not even the ...
Sida 40
... thought . " As thou knowest the person of him I have named , our affair is simple . Take this packet , ” he continued , placing a sealed letter of more than usual size into the hand of the gondolier , and drawing from his finger a ...
... thought . " As thou knowest the person of him I have named , our affair is simple . Take this packet , ” he continued , placing a sealed letter of more than usual size into the hand of the gondolier , and drawing from his finger a ...
Sida 61
... thought to be better than the first . " " If the wine improve in this manner , thy father should be heavy - hearted at the sight of the lees ! " Twould be no more than charity to bring him and Stefano acquainted . ” " Why not do it ...
... thought to be better than the first . " " If the wine improve in this manner , thy father should be heavy - hearted at the sight of the lees ! " Twould be no more than charity to bring him and Stefano acquainted . ” " Why not do it ...
Sida 67
... thoughts . What hast thou in the way of for- bidden liquors , Stefano , that my companion may not lose the night in idle words ? " " Per Diana ! Master Gino , thou puttest thy questions with little ceremony . The hold of the feluca is ...
... thoughts . What hast thou in the way of for- bidden liquors , Stefano , that my companion may not lose the night in idle words ? " " Per Diana ! Master Gino , thou puttest thy questions with little ceremony . The hold of the feluca is ...
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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.