The Stones of Venice ...J. Wiley, 1880 |
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adorned ancient arch architect architecture beautiful Bridge of Sighs builders building built Byzantine Byzantine architecture Cadorin canal capital Carlo Zeno cathedral character Christ Christian church color Council Chamber decoration Doge Ducal Palace edifice Eighth side expression feet Fifth side Fig-tree angle figure Foscari fourteenth Fourth side Francesco Dandolo Giottesque Giotto Gothic Greek Guariento hand head incrusted influence Inscribed inscription Judgment angle Lombard look marble Mark's Mark's Place ment mind modern mosaics noble Northern ornament painting Palazzo partly Piazzetta picture piece pilaster pillars porphyry Porta della Carta portions principal pulpit reader religious Renaissance copy represented rest rich Roman Romanist roof round Sala Sansovino sculpture Sea Façade Second side seen Selvatico Seventh side shafts Sixth side Spenser spirit stone STONES OF VENICE style temper Third side tion Titian Torcello tower traceries vaulting Venetian Venice Vine angle virtue walls whole Ziani
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الصفحة 120 - God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
الصفحة 70 - ... pomegranates, and birds clinging and fluttering among the branches, all twined together into an endless network of buds and plumes ; and, in the midst of it, the solemn forms of angels, sceptred, and robed to the feet, and leaning to each other across the gates, their figures indistinct among the gleaming of the golden ground through the leaves beside them, interrupted and dim, like the morning light as it faded back among the branches of Eden, when first its gates were angel-guarded long ago.
الصفحة 74 - It is lost in still deeper twilight, to which the eye must be accustomed for some moments before the form of the building can be traced; and then there opens before us a vast cave hewn out into the form of a Cross, and divided into shadowy aisles by many pillars. Round the domes of its roof the light enters only through narrow apertures like large stars; and here and there a ray or two from some far away casement wanders into the darkness, and casts a narrow phosphoric stream upon the waves of marble...
الصفحة 173 - Unquiet Care, and fond Unthriftyhead ; Lewd Losse of Time, and Sorrow seeming dead ; Inconstant Chaunge, and false Disloyalty ; Consuming Riotise, and guilty Dread Of heavenly vengeaunce ; faint Infirmity ; Vile Poverty ; and, lastly, Death with infamy.
الصفحة 67 - We find ourselves in a paved alley, some seven feet wide where it is widest, full of people, and resonant with cries of itinerant salesmen, — a shriek in their beginning, and dying away into a kind of brazen ringing, all the worse for its confinement between the high houses of the passage along which we have to make our way. Overhead an inextricable confusion of rugged shutters, and iron balconies and chimney flues...
الصفحة 174 - So proud she shyned in her Princely state, Looking to heaven, for earth she did disdayne, And sitting high, for lowly she did hate : Lo underneath her scornefull feete was layne A dreadfull Dragon with an hideous trayne ; And in her hand she held a mirrhour bright, Wherein her face she often vewed fayne, And in her selfe-lov'd semblance tooke delight ; For she was wondrous faire, as any living wight.
الصفحة 174 - And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony, Deformed creature, on a filthie swyne; His belly was up-blowne with luxury, And eke with fatnesse swollen were his eyne; And like a crane his necke was long and fyne, With which he swallowed up excessive feast, For want whereof poore people oft did pyne; And all the way, most like a brutish beast, He spued up his gorge, that all did him deteast.
الصفحة 67 - ... itinerant salesmen, — a shriek in their beginning, and dying away into a kind of brazen ringing, all the worse for its confinement between the high houses of the passage along which we have to make our way. Over-head an inextricable confusion of rugged shutters, and iron balconies and chimney flues pushed out on brackets to save room, and arched windows with projecting sills of Istrian stone, and gleams of green leaves here and there where a fig-tree branch escapes over a lower wall from some...
الصفحة 39 - ... the power of deliberate survey of the countries through which the journey lay, and partly by the happiness of the evening hours, when, from the top of the last hill he had surmounted, the traveller beheld the quiet village where he was to rest, scattered among the meadows beside its valley stream ; or, from the long-hoped-for turn in the dusty perspective of the causeway, saw, for the first time, the towers of some famed city, faint in the rays of sunset...
الصفحة 68 - ... to the height of the counter and glazed above, but in those of the poorer tradesmen left open to the ground, and the wares laid on benches and tables in the open air, the light in all cases entering at the front only, and fading away in a few feet from the threshold into a gloom which the eye from without cannot penetrate, but which is generally broken by a ray or two from a feeble lamp at the back of the shop, suspended before a print of the Virgin.