The queen of the Adriatic; or, Venice, past & present. By W. H. Davenport Adams.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781425541569
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: FOR the English reader, Venetian history should always possess an enduring interest; not only because it is flushed with the "opal lights" of romance and poetry, and blazoned with names which the world has agreed to enroll on the record of the ages; not only because certain of its incidents have inspired the genius of Shakspeare, and Otway, and Mrs. Radcliffe, and Byron, and Rogers; not only because of its marvellous phases of change, its quick growth, its surpassing glory, its rapid decadence, its prolonged agony, and final awakening to life and light in our own time;-these are things which appeal only to the imagination and the feelings: but it has higher claims on the consideration of the thoughtful.