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By which time, if we looked out again, we
haunting the lonesome palaces, and the sea.html">sea, which had so loved Venice,
rest.
At night sometimes we saw from our balcony one of those _freschi_,
are peculiar to the city.html">city, where alone their fine effects are possible. The
illumined with hundreds of paper lanterns, carry the military bands; the
of such citizens as choose to take part in the display,--though since 1859
No gondola has less than two lanterns, and many have eight or ten,
silken robes. The soldiers of the bands breathe from their instruments
procession takes the width of the Grand Canal in its magnificent course,
tenderly away, giving to light and then to shadow the opulent sculptures
bearded visages of stone that peer down from doorway and window. It is a
lights and the music have only got into my description by name, and that
In other days, people tell you, the fresco.html">fresco was much more impressive than
burned during the progress of the boats, threw the gondoliers' spectral
to have the fresco other than I know it: indeed, for my own selfish
forlorn than she is.
Without doubt the most picturesque craft ever seen on the Grand Canal are
Chioggia, come up to the city with the swelling sea. They are built with a
water high above the cabin roof, which is always covered with a straw
Venetia; and these of the Po are like immense funeral barges, and any.
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