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Page 521
... night invites us to a stroll along the Zattere or a giro in the gondola . IX . NIGHT IN VENICE Night in Venice ! Night is nowhere else so wonderful , unless it be in winter among the high Alps . But the nights of Venice and the nights ...
... night invites us to a stroll along the Zattere or a giro in the gondola . IX . NIGHT IN VENICE Night in Venice ! Night is nowhere else so wonderful , unless it be in winter among the high Alps . But the nights of Venice and the nights ...
Page 523
... night the very spirit of Venice is abroad . We feel why she is called Bride of the Sea . Take another night . There had been a repre- sentation of Verdi's Forza del Destino at the Teatro Malibran . After midnight we walked homeward ...
... night the very spirit of Venice is abroad . We feel why she is called Bride of the Sea . Take another night . There had been a repre- sentation of Verdi's Forza del Destino at the Teatro Malibran . After midnight we walked homeward ...
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... night , and surly weather imprisons you by the fire . You may remember how Burns , numbering past pleasures , dwells upon the hours when he has been ' happy thinking . ' It is a phrase that may well per- plex a poor modern girt about on ...
... night , and surly weather imprisons you by the fire . You may remember how Burns , numbering past pleasures , dwells upon the hours when he has been ' happy thinking . ' It is a phrase that may well per- plex a poor modern girt about on ...
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Abraham Newland admirable beautiful better called character Chioggia church colour Dante delight dinner drama Elena Elizabethan Era English face fancy feel fellow French Gaiety Theatre genius gentlemen Gerado give Goldsmith gondola grace Grand Canal hand head hear heart Hernani honour humour imagination Irenæus kind lady laugh learned live look Malamocco Malebranche matter Messer mind Molière morning murder nature never Nicolas Poussin night observed Oliver Goldsmith once painted passed passion perhaps person picture play pleasure poem poet poetry poor round Sarah Bernhardt seems sense Shakespeare Sicarii Sir Roger sleep sort soul speak spirit style sweet talk taste tell theatre things thought Tintoretto tion Toad-in-the-hole told town true truth turn Venice verse Victor Hugo walk whist whole wonder words write young
References to this book
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener No preview available - 1989 |
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener Limited preview - 1989 |