Venetian Life, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Venetian Life, Vol. 2 So passing to the other side I found eu trance through a disused chapel tothe interior of the convent. The gates on the outside were richly sculptured, and were reverend and clean 3 tufts of harsh grass grew from their arches, and hung down like the over whelming brows of age. Within, at first Sight, I saw nothing but heaps of rubbish, piles of stone, and here and there a muti lated statue. I remember two pathetic caryatides, that seemed to have broken and sunk under too heavya weight for their gentle beauty - and everywhere the unnamable filth with which min is always dishonoured in Italy, and which makes the most picturesque and historic places inaccessible to the foot, and intolerable to the senses and the soul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.