Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna (1877) (14776264472)

Identifier: italyfromalpstom00stie (find matches)
Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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VENICIi. 61 All is still; the sea breathes only.Sighing deep, lamenting sore,Knocks the Doges bride desertedAt each lordly palace door. And that, really, is what we seem to hear; we feel the power of the great deep, but wedo not see it; we are imprisoned in a labyrinth of narrow watery paths, which cross,and are tangled endlessly in one another, and lead,—who knows whither ?
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VENETIAN FISHING-BOAT. Some such impression as that above described, is felt by a traveller arriving at nightby the train from Mestre, and then rowing from the station into the city. No horse, nocarriage, is to be seen; nothing but the dark throng of gondolas which thread their wayin and out with snake-like agility. All firm foundations seem to sink away from onesfeet, and we see only the black pliant waters, from which the weather-stained houses riseup perpendicularly. The sad gloomy hues which they display even in broad daylight,become mere dreary darkness by night, and the long intricate voyage has, in truth,something Stygian about it! Disappointment makes us dumb. 62 ITAL Y. We went in the boat to the hotel of the Luna, where we were to take up ourquarters, and that dark journey I shall never forget. We were a curiously mixedparty ;—a German Professor with a long intelligent face, a stout old lady (an Italianfrom the Provinces), and a young married couple on their wedding tour.