Works, Volume 2J. G. Gregory, 1864 |
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... praying on thy decks that hour , caro Stefano , though none is bolder among the mountains of Calabria when thy felucca is once safely drawn upon the beach ! " The mariner cast a half - comic , half - serious glance upward at the image ...
... praying on thy decks that hour , caro Stefano , though none is bolder among the mountains of Calabria when thy felucca is once safely drawn upon the beach ! " The mariner cast a half - comic , half - serious glance upward at the image ...
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... 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 An- cona - man performed his feat : while Giorgio and I were boiling with rage at the ...
... 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 An- cona - man performed his feat : while Giorgio and I were boiling with rage at the ...
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... prayer to San Teodoro , since ne never rose after the blow . But what has brought thee to Venice , caro mio ? for thy ill - fortune with the oranges , in the last voyage , caused thee to de- nounce the place . " The Calabrian laid a ...
... prayer to San Teodoro , since ne never rose after the blow . But what has brought thee to Venice , caro mio ? for thy ill - fortune with the oranges , in the last voyage , caused thee to de- nounce the place . " The Calabrian laid a ...
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... prayers half the time . " 66 Jacopo ! " ejaculated the other , with an empha- sis which seemed to be a sort of summing up of all his aversion and horror . The gondolier shrugged his shoulders , with quite as much meaning as a man born ...
... prayers half the time . " 66 Jacopo ! " ejaculated the other , with an empha- sis which seemed to be a sort of summing up of all his aversion and horror . The gondolier shrugged his shoulders , with quite as much meaning as a man born ...
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... prayer , to the Virgin and to San Francesco . " The noble appeared to lend more attention to the discourse , which , until now , on his part , had been commenced in the listless manner with which a su- perior encourages an indulged ...
... prayer , to the Virgin and to San Francesco . " The noble appeared to lend more attention to the discourse , which , until now , on his part , had been commenced in the listless manner with which a su- perior encourages an indulged ...
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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...