Half-a-dozen strokes of the oar brought them in among the tall, shielding posts, close alongside the steps of the Venezia.
See on this point the Venetian books of fashions, and Sansovino, Venezia, fol.
For Athena from her Parthenon stretches the hand to Venezia enthroned in the ducal palace.
You bathed your spirit in sunshine and colour; I can hear you murmur now, 'O Venezia benedetta!
One stoops, as one stoops to enter the little prisons of Venezia, deep below the water.