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Venice and its story (1910)

Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935 · London, J. M. Dent ; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 332

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ious in its own way, but without thespiritual idealism of the Tuscan. Through the millennialtale of her existence as a State, no great poet, no greatthinker, no great dramatist meets us; none save a fluentand graceful writer of comedies of the Decadence, who wasdescended from a Modenese, and whose… … A VENETIAN WOMAN, PART II.—THE CITY They might chirp and chaffer, come and goFor pleasure or profit, her men alive—My business is hardly with them I trow. But with the empty cells of the human hive;—^With the chapter-room, the cloister-porch, The churchs apsis, aisle or nave,Its crypt, one fingers…

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