Venice, the city of the sea . THE NARROW STREET WE FIND OURSELVES IN A PAVED ALLEY, SOME SEVENFEET WIDE WHERE IT IS WIDEST, FULL OF PEOPLE,AND RESONANT WITH CRIES OF ITINERANT SALESMEN—A SHRIEK IN THEIR BEGINNING, AND DYING AWAYINTO A KIND OF BRAZEN RINGING, ALL THE WORSEFOR ITS CONFINEMENT BETWEEN THE HIGH HOUSESOF THE PASSAGE ALONG WHICH WE MAKE OUR AN INEXTRICABLE CONFUSION OF RUGGEDSHUTTERS, AND IRON BALCONIES AND CHIMNEYFLUESPUSHED OUT ON BRACKETS TO SAVE ROOM, AND ARCH-ED WINDOWS WITH PROJECTING SILLS OF ISTRIANSTONE, AND GLEAMS OF GREEN LEAVES HERE ANDTHERE WHERE A FIG-TREE
Venice, the city of the sea . THE NARROW STREET WE FIND OURSELVES IN A PAVED ALLEY, SOME SEVENFEET WIDE WHERE IT IS WIDEST, FULL OF PEOPLE,AND RESONANT WITH CRIES OF ITINERANT SALESMEN—A SHRIEK IN THEIR BEGINNING, AND DYING AWAYINTO A KIND OF BRAZEN RINGING, ALL THE WORSEFOR ITS CONFINEMENT BETWEEN THE HIGH HOUSESOF THE PASSAGE ALONG WHICH WE MAKE OUR AN INEXTRICABLE CONFUSION OF RUGGEDSHUTTERS, AND IRON BALCONIES AND CHIMNEYFLUESPUSHED OUT ON BRACKETS TO SAVE ROOM, AND ARCH-ED WINDOWS WITH PROJECTING SILLS OF ISTRIANSTONE, AND GLEAMS OF GREEN LEAVES HERE ANDTHERE WHERE A FIG-TREE BRANCH ESCAPES OVER ALOWER WALL FROM SOME INNER CORTILE, LEADINGTHE EYE UP TO THE NARROW STREAM OF BLUE SKYHIGH OVER ALL. John SAN GIORGIO A BUILDING WHICH OWES ITS INTERESTING EFFECTCHIEFLYTO ITS ISOLATED POSITION, BEINGSKENOVERA GREAT SPACE OF LAGOON. . THE INTERIOR OFTHE CHURCH IS LIKE A LARGE ASSEMBLY ROOM, ANDWOULD HAVE BEEN UNDESERVING OF A MOMENTSNOTICE BUT THAT IT CONTAINS SOME MOST PRECIOUS pictures. J°hn Ruskin. THE LAGOON THE LAGOONS ARE FULL OF MYSTERIES OF LIGHT:THEY ARE A VERITABLE TREASURE GROUND OF ILLU-SION. THEY ARE NOT ONE EXPANSE OF WATER OVERWHICH THE LIGHT BROODS WITH EQUABLE INFLU-ENCE; THEY FORM A REGION OF VARIOUS CIRCLES, ASIT WERE, OF VARIOUS DEGREES OF REMOTENESS ORTANGIBILITY. ALMOST ONE FEELS THAT EACH CIRCLEMUST BE INHABITED BY A SPIRIT APPROPRIATE TO IT-SELF, AND THAT A COMMON LANGUAGE COULD NOT BEBETWEEN THEM, SO SHARP ARE THE LIMITS SET BYTHE PLAY OF LIGHT. Beryl de Sclincourt and Mary Sturge Henderson.
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