VeniceSmith, Elder, 1884 - 186 頁 |
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16th century Aisle Aless Alessandro Alessandro Vittoria Alvise Andrea angels Antonio apse arch artist Baptist beautiful beneath Bonifazio 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 Foscari Frari Giorgio Giovanni Bellini Girolamo Giustiniani 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 Pesaro 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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第 29 頁 - WE praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting.
第 4 頁 - 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...
第 163 頁 - ONCE did She hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was the safeguard of the west : the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea.
第 92 頁 - 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...
第 71 頁 - 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.
第 162 頁 - 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.
第 4 頁 - ... 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 : 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...
第 3 頁 - Well might it seem that such a city had owed her existence rather to the rod of the enchanter than the fear of the fugitive ; that the waters which encircled her had been chosen for the mirror of her state, rather than the shelter of her nakedness; and that all which in nature was wild or merciless, — Time and Decay, as well as the waves and tempests, — had been won to adorn her instead of to destroy, and might still spare, for ages to come, that beauty which seemed to have fixed for its throne...
第 5 頁 - A few in fear, Flying away from him whose boast it was * That the grass grew not where his horse had trod, Gave birth to VENICE. Like the water-fowl, They built their nests among the...
第 26 頁 - Under foot and over head, a continual succession of crowded imagery, one picture passing into another, as in a dream ; forms beautiful and terrible mixed together ; dragons and serpents, and ravening beasts of prey, and graceful birds that in the midst of them drink from running fountains and feed from vases of crystal ; the passions and the pleasures of human life symbolized together, and the mystery of its redemption ; for the mazes of interwoven lines and changeful pictures lead always at last...