This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 edition. Excerpt: ... nerved me to endure the risk of death, And torture positive, far worse than death (If death be a deep sleep), without a groan, Or with a cry whiqh rather shamed my judges Than me; but 'tis not all, for there are things More woful--such as this small dungeon, where I may breathe many years. MARINA. Alas! and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 edition. Excerpt: ... nerved me to endure the risk of death, And torture positive, far worse than death (If death be a deep sleep), without a groan, Or with a cry whiqh rather shamed my judges Than me; but 'tis not all, for there are things More woful--such as this small dungeon, where I may breathe many years. MARINA. Alas! and this Small dungeon is all that belongs to thec Of this wide realm, of which thy sire is prince. JACOPO FOSCARI. That thought would scarcely aid me to endure it. My doom is common, many are in dungeons, But none like mine, so near their father's palace; But then my heart is sometimes high, and hope Will stream along those moted rays of light Peopled with dusty atoms, which afford Our only day; for, save the jailor's torch, And a strange firefly, which was quickly caught Last night in yon enormous spider's net, I ne'er saw aught here like a ray. Alas! I know if mind may bear us up, or no, For I have such, and shown it before men; It sinks in solitude: my soul is social. Marina. I will be with thee. JACOPO FOSCAKI. Ah! if it were so! But that they never granted--nor will grant, And I shall be alone: no men--no books--Those lying likenesses of lying men. I ask'd for even those outlines of their kind, . Which they term annals, history, what you will, Which men bequeath as portraits, and they were Refused me, so these walls have been my study, More faithful pictures of Venetian story, With nil their blank, or dismal stains, than is The hall not far from hence, which bears on high Hundreds of doges, and their deeds and dates. Marina. I come to tell thee the result of their Last council on thy doom. JACOPO FOSCARI. I know it--look! He points to his limbs, as referring to the tortures which he had undergone. Marina. No--no--no more of that: even they..
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