The stones of Venice.-3 volJ. Wiley & Son, 1867 |
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... walls and towers out of the midst , as it seemed , of the deep sea , for it was impossible that the mind or the eye ... wall of jagged blue , here and there showing through its clefts a wilderness of misty pre 2 FIRST PERIOD ,
... walls and towers out of the midst , as it seemed , of the deep sea , for it was impossible that the mind or the eye ... wall of jagged blue , here and there showing through its clefts a wilderness of misty pre 2 FIRST PERIOD ,
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... walls were reached , and the outmost of its untrodden streets was entered , not through towered gate or guarded rampart , but as a deep inlet between two rocks of coral in the Indian sea ; when first upon the traveller's sight opened ...
... walls were reached , and the outmost of its untrodden streets was entered , not through towered gate or guarded rampart , but as a deep inlet between two rocks of coral in the Indian sea ; when first upon the traveller's sight opened ...
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... walls of its cities , composed for the most part of large rounded Alpine pebbles alternating with narrow courses of brick ; and was curiously illustrated in 1848 , by the ramparts of these same pebbles thrown up four or five feet high ...
... walls of its cities , composed for the most part of large rounded Alpine pebbles alternating with narrow courses of brick ; and was curiously illustrated in 1848 , by the ramparts of these same pebbles thrown up four or five feet high ...
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... walls and towers from the islands that are near ; and so wait , until the bright investiture and sweet warmth of the sunset are with- drawn from the waters , and the black desert of their shore lies in its nakedness beneath the night ...
... walls and towers from the islands that are near ; and so wait , until the bright investiture and sweet warmth of the sunset are with- drawn from the waters , and the black desert of their shore lies in its nakedness beneath the night ...
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... walls and bulwarks of an ordinary sea - port . Had there been no tide , as in other parts of the Mediterranean , the narrow canals of the city would have become noisome , and the marsh in which it was built pesti- ferous . Had the tide ...
... walls and bulwarks of an ordinary sea - port . Had there been no tide , as in other parts of the Mediterranean , the narrow canals of the city would have become noisome , and the marsh in which it was built pesti- ferous . Had the tide ...
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Page 428 - For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Page 128 - I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
Page 345 - Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness; covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 75 - 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 and of...
Page 348 - And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly ; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
Page 379 - And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony, Deformed creature, on a filthie swyne. His belly was upblowne 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.
Page 76 - ... unemployed and listless, lie basking in the sun like lizards ; and unregarded children, — every heavy glance of their young eyes full of desperation and stony depravity, and their throats hoarse with cursing, — gamble, and fight, and snarl, and sleep, hour after hour, clashing their bruised centesimi upon the marble ledges of the church porch. And the images of Christ and His angels look down upon it continually.
Page 125 - Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaoth. Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory. Hosanna in the highest.
Page 179 - Alas! if read rightly, these perfectnesses are signs of a slavery in our England a thousand times more bitter and more degrading than that of the scourged African, or helot Greek.
Page 157 - The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers : they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about ; they have made thy beauty perfect.