The Sea-charm of VeniceDuckworth, 1907 - 113 頁 |
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第 46 頁 - I love all waste And solitary places ; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be : And such was this wide ocean, and this shore More barren than its billows : and yet more Than all, with a remembered friend I love To ride as then I rode ; — for the winds drove The living spray along the sunny air Into our faces ; the blue heavens were bare, Stripped to their depths by the awakening north ; And, from the waves, sound like delight broke forth Harmonising...
第 51 頁 - Lido thro' 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.
第 52 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 56 頁 - ... cut with a knife, came rushing forward over the lagoon, driven by the spirit of wind, which, hidden within it, whirled and coiled its column into an endless spiral. The wind was only there, at its very edge there was not a ripple ; but as it drew near our island it seemed to be pressed down upon the sea, and, unable to resist the pressure, opened out like a fan in a foam of vapor.
第 55 頁 - ... mass of seething cloud. We reached a small island and landed. An instant after, as I stood on the parapet of the fortification, amid the breathless silence, this pillar of cloud, ghostly white, and relieved against the violet darkness of the sky, its edge as clear as if cut with a knife, came rushing forward over the lagoon, driven by the spirit of wind, which, hidden within it, whirled and coiled its column into an endless spiral.
第 9 頁 - Venice, among Italian towns, stands alone. She only is built, not by the sea, but in the sea, born not on the beach of ocean, but like Aphrodite, from beneath her heart.
第 31 頁 - East on the quays; to picture the many hued and stately processions from the sea to the palace of the Duke, from San Marco to the sea.
第 3 頁 - Rome, was her nursing mother, and poured into her the milk of her art, her commerce, and her customs.
第 3 頁 - In constitution, in laws, in traditions, in the temper of her citizens, in manners, in her greatness, her splendour, even in her unbridled luxury and her decay, she was Roman to the end.
第 93 頁 - Any one can see another example in the picture of the " Origin of the Milky Way