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Venice and its story (1910)

Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935 · London, J. M. Dent ; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 88

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nger correspond to realities aredangerous in proportion to the character and genius of thosewhose imagination they seize upon. Actually the RomanEmpire had fallen to pieces, but so faithfully had the Romanswrought that it was regarded even by the northern invadersas an integral part of… … S. MARCO—INTERIOR—CHAPEL OF S. CLEMENTE. THE LOMBARD LEAGUE 45 of Dante, with his passionate aspiration for peace andrighteousness, it became a beautiful but ineffectual ideal ofa kingship over kings; an Emperor curbing the warringfactions and states of Christendom and coercing such asthreatened to…

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