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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INDEX TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- The Stones of Venice, Vol. II. (CONTANING THE TEXT OF ALL THE EDITIONS)
- FIRST, OR BYZANTINE, PERIOD
- CHAP. I THE THRONE
- CHAP. II TORCELLO
- CHAP. III MURANO
- CHAP. IV ST. MARK'S
- CHAP. V BYZANTINE PALACES
- SECOND, OR GOTHIC, PERIOD
- AUTHORS APPENDIX
- Plate section
CHAP. I - THE THRONE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INDEX TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- The Stones of Venice, Vol. II. (CONTANING THE TEXT OF ALL THE EDITIONS)
- FIRST, OR BYZANTINE, PERIOD
- CHAP. I THE THRONE
- CHAP. II TORCELLO
- CHAP. III MURANO
- CHAP. IV ST. MARK'S
- CHAP. V BYZANTINE PALACES
- SECOND, OR GOTHIC, PERIOD
- AUTHORS APPENDIX
- Plate section
Summary
§ 1. In the olden days of travelling, now to return no more, in which distance could not be vanquished without toil, but in which that toil was rewarded, partly by the power of deliberate survey of the countries through which the journey lay, and partly by the happiness of the evening hours, when from the top of the last hill he had surmounted, the traveller beheld the quiet village where he was to rest, scattered among the meadows beside its valley stream; or, from the long hoped for turn in the dusty perspective of the causeway, saw, for the first time, the towers of some famed city, faint in the rays of sunset—hours of peaceful and thoughtful pleasure, for which the rush of the arrival in the railway station is perhaps not always, or to all men, an equivalent,—in those days, I say, when there was something more to be anticipated and remembered in the first aspect of each successive halting-place, than a new arrangement of glass roofing and iron girder, there were few moments of which the recollection was more fondly cherished by the traveller, than that which, as I endeavoured to describe in the close of the last chapter, brought him within sight of Venice, as his gondola shot into the open lagoon from the canal of Mestre.
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 3 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1904