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...William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623. Bassanio, an impoverished gentleman, uses the credit of his friend, the merchant Antonio, to borrow money from a...

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...you guys are taking in Rome?" "Yes and other bits here and there. We were in Venice a couple days ago. Nice--well worth seeing as I'm sure Florence w...

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...This is the first of five volumes. - Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, writer, and womanizer. He used charm, guile, threats, intimidation, and aggression, when necessary, to conquer women, sometimes lea...

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... the centre; the T riumphal Arch, where the bronze horses of St. Mark from Venice used to stand in those days. At either end, by the Galeries du Louvr... ...he trees on the islands in a setting of spring leaves, seemed to rise like Venice out of the waters, and her old cathedral towers soaring in air were ...

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... house at all? Why not go to the South of France?—to Italy?—Paris, Naples, Venice, Rome? Hepzibah will say we have not the means. A droll idea that!” ... ...with ivory; a piece of antique furniture, which Mr. Pyncheon had bought in Venice, and which he used as the treasure-place for medals, ancient coins, ...

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...nd poor men’s cottages, princes’ pal- aces. —Merchant of Venice. “DICK,” said Dr. Spencer, as the friends sat together in the evenin...

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...nna had been traveling for three months together in Europe. They had visited Venice, Rome, and Naples, and had just arrived at a small Italian town wh...

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...e managed. Until Morgan was born. Then she could not leave fast enough to Venice with Paulo, and after him, Gerard in Paris and later Franz in Ant... ...ient chestnut about one of Rupert’s last successes as Shylock in Merchant of Venice. It was a long Listen With Your Heart 99 and disjointed tale t...

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...of the ashes of I know not how many unknown and pulverized Londons, Romes, Venices, and Parises, I would write a book on mod- ern marriages made under...

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...unsellor. They came from behind the armies of Sala-ud-Din: from Rome: from Venice: from England. They stole down our alley, they tapped secretly at ou...

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...rafty and a cruel bond. I know that, a few hours hence, the Grand Canal of Venice will flow, with picturesque fidelity, on the very spot where I now s...

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... 1597 1599 14. The Merchant of Venice, 1597 1594 15. Hamlet, ...

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...S TER SESSIONS TER SESSIONS “Is it so nominated in the bond?” —Merchant of Venice. MALGRE her disinclination, Rachel had reached the point of recovery...

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...and) W(oodward) To M. I. L. To M. I. P. To the E(arl) of D(oncaster), with Sixe Holy Sonnets To Sir H(enry) W(otton), at His Going Ambassadour to Venice To M(rs.) M(agdalen) H(erbert) To the Countess of Bedford (Honour Is So Sublime Perfection...) To the Countess of Huntingdon (That Unripe Side of Earth...) To the Countess of Bedford Begun in France, but Never Perf...

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... Civilisation and Decay (1895), Adams noted that as new population centers emerged in the west, centers of world trade shifted from Constantinople to Venice to Amsterdam to London. He predicted in America’s Economic Supremacy (1900) that New York would become the centre for world trade. The Theory of Social Revolutions was written in 1913. (Wikipedia)...

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...sunshine did me much good. For six months I wan- dered about from Genoa to Venice, from Venice to Florence, from Florence to Rome, from Rome to Naples...

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...e Venetian Republic. This result was attained in the battle of Vaila, when Venice lost in one day all that she had won in eight hundred years. Florenc... ...clude Sonetti, Canzoni, Ottave, and Canti carnascialeschi. Editions. Aldo, Venice, 1546; della Tertina, 1550; Cambiagi, Florence, 6 vols., 1782-5; dei... ...Carmignuola. Francesco Bussone, born at Carmagnola about 1390, executed at Venice, 5th May 1432. *Bartolomeo Colleoni of Bergamo; died 1457. Roberto o... ...Colleoni of Bergamo; died 1457. Roberto of San Severino; died fighting for Venice against Sigismund, Duke of Austria, in 1487. “Primo capitano in Ital... ...ciliation being completed, Guido Ubaldo, the Duke of Urbino, again fled to Venice, having first de- stroyed all the fortresses in his state; because, ...

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...e. 13 Henry James CHAPTER II T wo months later Bernard Longueville was at Venice, still under the impression that he was leaving Italy. He was not a ... ...ew men made more—but he made them as a basis for variation. He had gone to Venice to spend a fortnight, and his fortnight had taken the form of eight ... ...erable skill in accommodating his theory to his practice. His enjoyment of Venice was extreme, but he was roused from it by a summons he was indispose... ... him about. He had put him to this inconvenience in making him travel from Venice to Baden, and one such favor at a time was enough to ask, even of th...

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...ined a footing in the Court of the King of Sicily. Being short of funds in Venice, because he was a younger son, he had no fancy for commerce, 87 Dro... ...king pointed out to the Sieur de Bonne-C——— that there was in the state of Venice an illustrious family named Coglioni, who wore three “C—— — au natur... ...ass bottle, no bigger than a bean, 131 Droll Stories- V ol. Three made at Venice, and containing a poison so subtle that by breaking it between the t...

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...rks. Italics are so called because they were invented in Italy by Aldus of Venice. Before the invention of machine-made paper, which can be woven in a...

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...lves about her letters. But why did not you get ours.” “Mrs. McIan died at Venice, and the aunts came out, and considering me too young to go on with ... ...hat her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed. —Merchant of Venice. “IT IS OUR MELANCHOLY DUTY to record the demise of James Barnes, Es... ...lant she brought from Algiers.” “The beauty! It must go into Mrs. Evelyn’s Venice glass,” said Babie, bustling about to collect her vases. Lina, with ...

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...d Vintners’, are shut: Paris is in the streets;—rushing, foaming like some Venice wine-glass into which you had dropped poison. The tocsin, by order, ...

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... CHAPTER 5 Something Wrong Somewhere THE FAMILY HAD BEEN a month or two at Venice, when Mr Dorrit, who was much among Counts and Marquises, and had bu... ...The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ‘It Never Does’ WHILE THE WATERS of Venice and the ruins of Rome were sunning themselves for the pleasure of th...

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...ver the parapet and look at the barges on the canal below. “It’s just like Venice,” he said, seeing the sunshine on the water that lay between high fa...

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...d Vintners’, are shut: Paris is in the streets;—rushing, foaming like some Venice wine- glass into which you had dropped poison. The tocsin, by or- de...

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...re upbeat. “Your first Audience is with a group of young Jesuit Priests from Venice. After that...” As Alfredo read off the day’s business, the P... ... excitement. “I have met the first name on the list. He’s a young Jesuit from Venice. He was part of the Audience this morning. I want you to find h... ... at seventeen. I had, let’s say, an aptitude for learning, so they sent me to Venice where I was ordained after ten years, and have been there ever ... ...iest. Not that it was an unimportant job, but he loved learning, and he loved Venice. He wanted to make a difference, contribute something to the Ch... ... mind. After delivering the message, would the Pontiff order him to return to Venice, and then to Palermo? Somehow, he vowed to himself, he had to m... ...pe said sternly. "Of course, we are always free to choose. You may go back to Venice, and I will go to Palermo myself." "Holy Father, you can't do ... ...conversation. Antonio wondered if a scene like this could be found in refined Venice. He doubted it. But this was home, and he loved the sound of vi... ...tonio said and started toward the door. "By the way, you look good, Antonio. Venice must agree with you." "You, also look good, Uncle. Crime must ... ...io replied politely. This was not going to be easy. He wished he were back in Venice, safe behind the walls of his Church. "What does this have to ...

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... Way,‖ Boorstin notes that prior to the thirteenth-century merchants from Venice, Genoa, Pisa, or Paris prospered selling luxuries, such as sleek Ch...

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...y. Take the quantity of a walnut, night and morning. For a Looseness T ake Venice treacle and diascordium, of each half a drachm, in warm ale or water... ...mon be a spice used in all her meats and drinks, and let her take a little Venice treacle or mithridate every morning. Let her boil burnet, mugwort, f...

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...on steady maxims of policy through many generations, are those of Rome and Venice. But, at Venice, though the privileged order was numerous, the actua...

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...go back to Caesarism or oligarchy or plutocracy or a theocracy, to Rome or Venice or Carthage, to the strong man or the ruler by divine right, for the... ...ew Jer- sey and Long Island and New York State, becoming a new and greater Venice, queen of the earth. Perhaps, after all, the twentieth century isn’t...

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...t with his hy pothesis, who will not allow that the beginning of Rome and Venice were by the uniting together of several men, free and independent on...

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...:’ T ube roses.—P . 413 ‘Lion of the deeps:’ the winged Lion, the arms of Venice.—P . W . 414 ‘Greatly-daring dined:’ it being, indeed, no small ris...

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...red, he made his choice by the outside, as the lovers in the Mer- chant of Venice select the casket, contented to trust to chance the issue of the lot...

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...un- tered Omar al Bayoumi and Caysan Bin Don at a halal food restaurant on Venice Boulevard in Culver City, a few blocks away from the King Fahd mosqu... ... in V enice, Florida. Jarrah arrived in Newark on June 27 and then flew to Venice. He immediately began the private pilot pro- gram at FFTC, intending... ... in the mid- 1990s),Atta started flight instruction at Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida, and both Atta and Shehhi subsequently enrolled in the Acce... ... to enroll at Jones Aviation in Sarasota, Florida, about 20 miles north of Venice.According to the instruc- tor at Jones, the two were aggressive, rud...

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...to Leo X., from Leo X., to Philip II., from Philip II. to Louis XIV.; from Venice to England, from England to Napoleon, from Napoleon to England, I se... ...from Carthage to Rome, from Rome to Constantinople, from Constantinople to Venice, from Venice to Spain, from Spain to England—while no trace is left ... ...gland—while no trace is left of Memphis, of Tyre, of Carthage, of Rome, of Venice, 61 Balzac or Madrid. The soul of those great bodies has fled. Not ...

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...y in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love: From Venice shall they drag huge argosies, And from America the golden fleece ... ...le in length, Thorough a rock of stone, in one night’s space; From thence to Venice, Padua, and the rest, In one of which a sumptuous temple stands, T...

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...f anew, and began to read a volume of Ruskin. “Seven miles to the north of Venice—” How perfectly the famous chapter opens! How su- preme its command ... ... rich man is speaking to us from his gondola. “Seven miles to the north of Venice the banks of sand which nearer the city rise little above low-wa- te... ...r outlook. For instance, when you came in I was reading Ruskin’s Stones of Venice. I don’t say this to boast, but just to show you the kind of man I a... ...e given food but no clothes, clothes but no food, a third-return ticket to Venice, without either food or clothes when he ar- rived there. In short, h...

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...nce, almost palpable, lay upon the mutest city in the world. The spirit of Venice is there: of a city where Age and Decay, fagged with distributing d...