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... Venice - to show what she has been . Their garb is black , and black the arras is , And sad the general aspect . Yet their looks Are calm , are cheerful ; nothing there like grief , Nothing or harsh , or cruel . That low and dismal ...
... Venice - to show what she has been . Their garb is black , and black the arras is , And sad the general aspect . Yet their looks Are calm , are cheerful ; nothing there like grief , Nothing or harsh , or cruel . That low and dismal ...
Page 281
... Venice , In whom the slightest thing , or whim , or chance , Did he but wear his doublet so and so , All followed : at whose nuptials , when at length He won that maid at once the fairest , noblest , A daughter of the House of Contarini ...
... Venice , In whom the slightest thing , or whim , or chance , Did he but wear his doublet so and so , All followed : at whose nuptials , when at length He won that maid at once the fairest , noblest , A daughter of the House of Contarini ...
Page 282
... VENICE . Brooding on what he had been , " Twas more than he could bear . Night and day , what he was , His longing fits Thickened upon him . His desire for home Became a madness ; and , resolved to go , If but to die , in his despair he ...
... VENICE . Brooding on what he had been , " Twas more than he could bear . Night and day , what he was , His longing fits Thickened upon him . His desire for home Became a madness ; and , resolved to go , If but to die , in his despair he ...
Page 284
... Venice , Bringing a stain on those who gave him life , On those , alas , now worse than fatherless- To be proclaimed a ruffian , a night - stabber , He on whom none before had breathed reproach— He lived but to disprove it . That hope ...
... Venice , Bringing a stain on those who gave him life , On those , alas , now worse than fatherless- To be proclaimed a ruffian , a night - stabber , He on whom none before had breathed reproach— He lived but to disprove it . That hope ...
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... Venice , It rung his knell . But whence the deadly hate That caused all this - the hate of Loredano ? It was a legacy his father left him , Who , but for Foscari , had reigned in Venice , And , like the venom in the serpent's bag , A ...
... Venice , It rung his knell . But whence the deadly hate That caused all this - the hate of Loredano ? It was a legacy his father left him , Who , but for Foscari , had reigned in Venice , And , like the venom in the serpent's bag , A ...
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