Works, Volume 2J. G. Gregory, 1864 |
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... patrician rank , who paced the gloomy arcades which supported the superior walls of the doge's palace , a spot sacred , at times , to the uses of the privileged . " I am no stranger to the habit thy Venetian no- bles have of coming to ...
... patrician rank , who paced the gloomy arcades which supported the superior walls of the doge's palace , a spot sacred , at times , to the uses of the privileged . " I am no stranger to the habit thy Venetian no- bles have of coming to ...
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... beauty without . Our narra- tive now leads us to one of these patrician abodes of the first class . A heavy magnificence pervaded the style of the dwelling . The vestibule was vast , vaulted , and THE BRAVO . 57 CHAPTER IV. ...
... beauty without . Our narra- tive now leads us to one of these patrician abodes of the first class . A heavy magnificence pervaded the style of the dwelling . The vestibule was vast , vaulted , and THE BRAVO . 57 CHAPTER IV. ...
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... patrician of St. Mark be a lord in other lands , nor may the heiress of a name , great and valued as thine , be given in mar- riage , to any of note , in a foreign state , without counsel and consent from those who are appointed to ...
... patrician of St. Mark be a lord in other lands , nor may the heiress of a name , great and valued as thine , be given in mar- riage , to any of note , in a foreign state , without counsel and consent from those who are appointed to ...
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... patricians of my family , in behalf of the stranger , that his pretracted suit may come to a more speedy end . " " Daughter , beware ; the intercession of one in whom St. Mark feels so lively an interest , may raise up enemies to Don ...
... patricians of my family , in behalf of the stranger , that his pretracted suit may come to a more speedy end . " " Daughter , beware ; the intercession of one in whom St. Mark feels so lively an interest , may raise up enemies to Don ...
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... patricians in that city of riches and pride . Its magnitude and architecture , though rather less imposing than those which distinguished the palace of the Donna Violetta . placed it among the private edifices of the first or- der , and ...
... patricians in that city of riches and pride . Its magnitude and architecture , though rather less imposing than those which distinguished the palace of the Donna Violetta . placed it among the private edifices of the first or- der , and ...
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Page viii - 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...
Page 393 - PRISONER OF CHILLON. MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd — forbidden fare...
Page 405 - LET us lift up the curtain, and observe What passes in that chamber. Now a sigh, And now a groan is heard. Then all is still. Twenty are sitting as in judgment there ; Men who have served their country, and grown...