 A few gondolas passed us. No noisy trade was heard, no cries, no rattling of carriages of course; not so much as the sound of a footstep disturbed the universal stillness. We might have fancied ourselves in the catacombs of all the fishes of the Adriatic,...  A Tour in Italy and Sicily - Pagina 35door Louis Simond - 1828 - 624 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1829 - 592 pagina’s
...sound of a footstep disturbed the universal stillness. We might have fancied ourselves in the cntncombs of all the fishes of the Adriatic, rather than in...an easy curve, the very line of beauty. It is wider thau the great canal of Amsterdam (nearly 300 feet), but is rendered peculiarly striking, from the... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1831 - 454 pagina’s
...the catacombs of all the fishes of the Adriatic, rather than in a town inhabited by men, but for die few heads that we saw here and there popping out of...found ourselves in the great one which traverses the city in an easy curve, the very line of beauty, and rendered peculiarly striking from the circumstance... | |
 | 1836 - 282 pagina’s
...succession from canal to canal, with scarcely any dry communication from house to house. A few gondolas passed us. No noisy trade was heard, no cries, no...found ourselves in the great one, which traverses the city in an easy curve, the very line of beauty, and rendered peculiarly striking from the circumstance... | |
 | Francis Coghlan - 1845 - 996 pagina’s
...disturbed the universal stillness. We might have fancied ourselves in the catacombs of all the fishes (>f the Adriatic, rather than in a town inhabited by men,...dark holes to look at us. Emerging at last from the I maze of narrow canals, we found I ourselves in the great one which traverses the city in an easy... | |
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