The stones of Venice.-3 volJ. Wiley & Son, 1867 |
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... , and beyond these , beginning with the craggy peaks above Vicenza , the chain of the Alps girded the whole horizon to the north - a wall of jagged blue , here and there showing through its clefts a wilderness of misty pre 2 FIRST PERIOD ,
... , and beyond these , beginning with the craggy peaks above Vicenza , the chain of the Alps girded the whole horizon to the north - a wall of jagged blue , here and there showing through its clefts a wilderness of misty pre 2 FIRST PERIOD ,
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... whole earth , have been more fatal in their influence on Venice than the five hundred that preceded them ; though the noble landscape of approach to her can now be seen no more , or seen only by a glance , as the engine slack- ens its ...
... whole earth , have been more fatal in their influence on Venice than the five hundred that preceded them ; though the noble landscape of approach to her can now be seen no more , or seen only by a glance , as the engine slack- ens its ...
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... whole existence and fortune of the Venetian nation were anticipated or compelled , by the setting of those bars and doors to the rivers and the Had deeper currents divided their islands , hostile navies would again and again have ...
... whole existence and fortune of the Venetian nation were anticipated or compelled , by the setting of those bars and doors to the rivers and the Had deeper currents divided their islands , hostile navies would again and again have ...
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... delicate sculpture , they , and the arches they sustain , together only raise the roof to the height of a cattle - shed ; and the first strong impression which the spectator receives from the whole scene is , 14 FIRST PERIOD .
... delicate sculpture , they , and the arches they sustain , together only raise the roof to the height of a cattle - shed ; and the first strong impression which the spectator receives from the whole scene is , 14 FIRST PERIOD .
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... whole group of building is subordinate . It has evidently been built by men in flight and distress * , who sought in the hurried erection of their island church such a shelter for their earnest and sorrow- ful worship as , on the one ...
... whole group of building is subordinate . It has evidently been built by men in flight and distress * , who sought in the hurried erection of their island church such a shelter for their earnest and sorrow- ful worship as , on the one ...
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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.