Sketches from Venetian History, المجلد 2J. Murray, 1832 - 4 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 325 - Now art thou welcome. Cel. Sir! Volp. Nay, fly me not. Nor let thy false imagination That I was bed-rid, make thee think I am so: Thou shalt not find it. I am, now, as fresh, As hot, as high, and in as jovial plight...
الصفحة 388 - I lesse surprised with the strange variety of the severall nations which were seen every day in the streetes and piazzas ; Jews, Turks, Armenians, Persians, Moores, Greekes, Sclavonians, some with their targets and boucklers, and all in their native fashions, negotiating in this famous Emporium, which is allways crowded with strangers.
الصفحة 387 - Thus attir'd they set their hands on the heads of two matron-like servants or old women, to support them, who are mumbling their beades.
الصفحة 95 - Mestre by a Chief of the Ten, and asked, " What news ?" he had answered by reporting the assassination, several hours before it was generally known. The servant was arrested, examined, and barbarously tortured ; but even the eightieth application of the strappado failed to elicit one syllable which might justify condemnation. The young Foscari was recalled from...
الصفحة 386 - I hardly remember to have seene the same piece twice expos'd ; to this add the perfumes, apothecaries shops, and the innumerable cages of nightingales which they keepe, that entertaine you with their melody from shop to shop, so that shutting your eyes you would imagine yourselfe in the country, when indeede you are in the middle of the Sea. It is almost as silent as the middle of a field, there being neither rattling of coaches nor trampling of horses. This streete, pav'd with brick and exceedingly...
الصفحة 140 - Manfrini), was one of the earliest great works of Titian, which, both from the skill of the artist and the loveliness of the subject, extended his growing fame beyond the borders of the Lagune. With so great attractions, coupled to the rich dowry of a kingdom, it was not probable that the queen of Cyprus would long remain without suitors; and rumour already declared her to be the intended bride of Frederic, a son of the king of Naples. If she married and bore children, Cyprus would become their inheritance;...
الصفحة 432 - But chief her shrine where naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the lion of the deeps; Where, eased of fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth eunuch and enamour'd swain.
الصفحة 387 - ... in the sun, as one may see them at their windows. In their tire, they set silk flowers and sparkling stones, their petticoats coming from their very arm-pits, so that they are near...
الصفحة 179 - Adriatic, she was able to collect into her storehouses the productions of every country, " and, in her long range of maritime stations, from the Po to the eastern boundary of the Mediterranean, and the mouth of the Don, to gather and disperse 'the merchandise of the entire known world.
الصفحة 141 - ... there was little which could allure a woman environed with the splendour of royalty and the observance of a court, to descend to the parsimonious habits and undistinguished level of a republican life ; and that it would please her far better if the signory would await her decease before they occupied her possessions. But to arguments explanatory of the will, the power, and the inflexibility of the senate, it was not easy to find an adequate answer; and the natural eloquence, as the historian...