sembled in thechurch interceded with God in fervent prayers for the desired boon, theybeheld with as much amazement as joy a slight shaking in the marbles of apillar [where the altar of the Cross is nowj which presently falling to theearth, exposed to the view of the rejoicing people the chest of… … S. MARKS 49 there, however, is, though precious, expressing the Ufe of thecity, really but a kind of vegetation—a sign of age upon it.Those pinnacles, those pointed gables of the fourteenthcentury, reflect the Gothic period of the city, then newlyItalian, as certainly as the Doges Palace can do,…
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