Identifier: withbyroninitlay00byrouoft (find matches)
Title: With Byron in Itlay; a selection of the poems and letters of Lord Byron relating to his life in Italy. Edited by Anna Benneson McMahan
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 McMahan, Anna (Benneson) 1846-
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Publisher: London T.F. Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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playdLooks with its venerable faceOver the far and subject sea,Which makes the fearless isles so free!And t is a strange and noble pile,Pillard into many an aisle :Every pillar fair to see,Marble — jasper — and porphyry —The church of St. Mark — which stands hard byWith fretted pinnacles on high,And cupola and minaret;More like the mosque of orient lands,Than the fanes wherein we pray,And Marys blessed likeness stands.Venice, December 6, 1816.1 TO JOHN MURRAY Venice, November 25, 1816.Dear Sir, — It is some months since I have heard fromor of you — I think, not since I left Diodati. From MilanI wrote once or twice; but have been here some little time,and intend to pass the winter without removing. I wasmuch pleased with the Lago di Garda, and with Verona,particularly the amphitheatre, and a sarcophagus in a Con-vent garden, which they show as Juliets: they insist on 1 First published in 1901, from a manuscript in possession of Mr.Murray, grandson of Byrons publisher. ( 8 )
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oo a ^ .- © Pi • OS •to to THE YEARS 1817, 1818, 1819 the truth of her history. Since my arrival at Venice, thelady of the Austrian governor told me that between Veronaand Vicenza there are still ruins of the castle of the Mon-tecchi, and a chapel once appertaining to the Capulets.Romeo seems to have been of Vicenza by the tradition;but I was a good deal surprised to find so firm a faith inBandello s novel, which seems really to have been foundedon a fact. Venice pleases me as much as I expected, and I expectedmuch. It is one of those places which I know before Isee them, and has always haunted me the most after theEast. I like the gloomy gaiety of their gondolas, and thesilence of their canals. I do not even dislike the evidentdecay of the city, though I regret the singularity of itsvanished costume; however, there is much left still; theCarnival, too, is coming. St. Marks, and indeed Venice, is most alive at night.The theatres are not open till nine, and the society isproportio

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