St. Mark's Rest: The History of Venice : Written for the Help of the Few Travellers who Still Care for Her Monuments, Part 1George Allen, 1877 |
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Page 40 - THE burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish ; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in : from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them. Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle ; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.
Page 25 - Tyrus, et populus .•Kthiopum hi fuerunt illic. Numquid Sion dicet : Homo et homo natus est in ea, et ipse fundavit earn Altissimus ? Dominus narrabit in scripturis populorum et principum : horum qui fuerunt in ea.
Page 2 - ... things. They are to Venice, in fact, what the Nelson column would be to London, if, instead of a statue of Nelson and a coil- of rope, on the top of it, we had put one of the four Evangelists, and a saint, for the praise of the Gospel and of Holiness : — trusting the memory of Nelson to our own souls. However, the memory of the Nelson of Venice, being now seven hundred years old, has more or less faded from the heart of Venice herself, and seldom finds its way into the heart of a stranger....
Page 1 - OF TYRE. Go first into the Piazzetta, and stand anywhere in the shade, where you can well see its two granite pillars. Your Murray tells you that they are ' famous,' and that the one is " surmounted by the bronze lion of St. Mark, the other by the statue of St. Theodore, the Protector of the Republic.