VeniceSmith, Elder, 1884 - 186 էջ |
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15th century 16th century Aisle Aless Alessandro Alessandro Vittoria Alvise Andrea angels Antonio apse arch artist Baptist beautiful beneath Bonifazio bridge bronze building built Byzantine campanile Campo Cappella Carpaccio Chapel Chioggia Christ church ciel Cima da Conegliano colour contains Contarini cross Dandolo decorated Doge Doge Francesco Domenico door Ducal entrance façade figure Fondamenta Giorgio Giovanni Bellini Girolamo gondola Gothic Grand Canal Grimani High Altar islands Jacopo Jacopo Sansovino lagoon Lido Lombardo Lorenzo Madonna marble Marco Marco Basaiti Maria Mark Mark's Mocenigo Monument mosaics Murano Nicolò noble painted palace Palazzo Palma Giovane Palma Vecchio Paolo Paul Veronese Piazza picture Pietro Pietro Lombardo pillars Ponte Pope portrait Republic Rialto rich Sacristy saints Sala Sansovino sculpture Scuola Sebastiano Senate side statue Stones of Venice throned Tiepolo Tintoret Tintoretto Titian Tomb of Doge Torcello Transept Venetian Venise Virgin and Child Vittore Vittore Carpaccio Vittoria Vivarini walls Ziani
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Էջ 29 - WE praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting.
Էջ 92 - Enter ye in at the strait gate ; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat, because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it,
Էջ 4 - 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...
Էջ 161 - ... with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Էջ 71 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my moneys and my usances : Still have I borne it with a patient shrug ; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own.
Էջ 4 - In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear: Those days are gone - but Beauty still is here.
Էջ 14 - And well may they fall back, for beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises a vision out of the earth, and all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe...
Էջ 4 - 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!
Էջ 162 - Lido through the harbour piles, The likeness of a clump of peaked isles. And then, as if the earth and sea had been Dissolved into one lake of, fire, were seen Those mountains towering, as from waves of flame. Around the vaporous sun ; from which there came The inmost purple spirit of light, and made ' Their very peaks transparent. "Ere it fade," Said my companion, " I will show you soon A better station.
Էջ 15 - their bluest veins to kiss " — the shadow, as it steals back from them, revealing line after line of azure undulation, as a receding tide leaves the waved sand ; their capitals rich with interwoven tracery, rooted knots of herbage, and drifting leaves of acanthus and vine, and mystical signs, all beginning and ending in the Cross ; and above them, in the broad archivolts, a continuous chain of language...