Life on the LagoonsRivingtons, 1904 - 297 páginas |
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Página 182 - From Saint Mark's the pigeons have sent out colonies to the other churches and campi of Venice. They have crossed the Grand Canal, and roost and croon among the volutes of the Salute, or, in wild weather, wheel high and airly above its domes.
Página 252 - Sia benedeto l'albore e l'antena, La barca del mio ben e chi la, mena E chi la mena la sa ben menare, La barca del mio ben sa navegare.
Página 249 - No te fidar de l' albaro che piega, Ne de la dona quando la te giura. La te impromete, e po la te denega; No te fidar de l' albaro che piega. (Trust not the mast that bends. Trust not a woman's oath; She'll swear to you, and there it ends, Trust not the mast that bends.) Beppo, Salemina, and I were talking together one morning, — just a casual meeting in the street, — when Peppina passed us. She had a market-basket...
Página 122 - ... the sea rises ; it creeps under the large door of the palace, and swells the little pools that are bubbling up in the courtyard, and flows right out by the great gates on the Grand Canal, converting the whole cortile into a lake. Then the first boat passes down the calle, stopping at the shop doors to pick up fares ; and bare-legged men offer their services as porters from the high bridge steps to the upper end of the street, which is still dry. Indeed, the flood is an excuse for the display...
Página 122 - ... for the boat and shrinks from the porterage ; laughing at the thin-shod dandy, whose hat was blown off and umbrella turned inside out, and who looks disgust at the wind ; laughing at the heavy man who nearly brings himself and his bearer prone upon the water. Then suddenly, without a moment's warning, there is a dazzling flash of lightning, a rattling peal ; every face disappears from the windows, and all the green shutters go to with a bang. The streets are full of people, most of them bound...
Página 121 - ... more, till the jade-coloured flood has nearly brimmed to the edge of the fondamenta, but not yet overflowed it. Then the water begins to appear in the calle ; it comes welling up through every drain-hole and between the flags of the pavement, bubbling like a little geyser and making a low, gurgling noise ; for the sea begins to flood Venice under the pavements, and not over the fondamente, which are usually higher than the streets. Presently the baker puts out a board to serve as a bridge for...
Página 60 - with a skill which takes rank as a fine art. The gondola is the most •charming carriage in the world, and so thoroughly Venetian, that Venice would hardly be Venice without it. There is a sentiment and flavour of antiquity about the gondola,' he continues, 'which it owes, like Venice herself, to its leisurely natural development. It is in no sense an invention — it is a growth ; directed by the needs of its native place, bearing on its structure the impress of Venetian life and history.
Página 37 - ... year the General Assembly itself named the two nominating representatives of each sestiere. The functions of this new Assembly were to appoint all officers of 272 Maggior Consiglio; Pregadi; Promissione [1172 State and to prepare business to be submitted to the General Assembly. This is virtually the germ of the Maggior Consiglio (the Great Council), the basis of the Venetian oligarchical constitution. It had its origin in a double necessity : — that of limiting the electorate, and that of...