On the Lagoons ‘A Venetian _John
Medley’ Addington Symonds_ 198
On the Zattere ‘Poems’ _Arthur Symons_ 126
Pleasant Murano Coryat’s ‘Crudities’ _Thomas Coryat_ 171
Sailing towards Venice ‘The Improvisatore’ _Hans Andersen_ 67
Salve Venetia! ‘Gleanings from _Francis Marion
Venetian History’ Crawford_ 3
San Francesco del Deserto ‘Poems’ _Stopford A. Brooke_ 186
San Francesco della Vigna ‘Santa Barbara’ _Ouida_ 188
Scene in Venice ‘Ecclesiastical
Sonnets’ _William Wordsworth_ 363
Shelley in Venice ‘Letters’ _P. B. Shelley_ 379
Sing to Me, Gondolier ‘Poems’ _Mrs. Hemans_ 153
Society in Eighteenth- _Lady Mary Wortley
Century Venice ‘Letters’ Montagu_ 271
Some Marvels of Venice ‘An Itinerary’ _Fynes Moryson_ 357
Spectral Venice ‘Travel Pictures’ _Hans Andersen_ 17
Spring in Venice ‘Venetian Life’ _W. D. Howells_ 325
St. George of the Greeks ‘The Sentimental
Traveller’ _Vernon Lee_ 301
Sunrise in Venice ‘Contarini Fleming’ _Lord Beaconsfield_ 305
Sunset ‘Poems’ _Stopford A. Brooke_ 311
Sunset and Venice ‘Poems’ _Stopford A. Brooke_ 309
That Glorious City in the
Sea ‘Italy’ _Samuel Rogers_ 30
The Approach to Venice ‘The Stones of
Venice’ _John Ruskin_ 77
The Balcony on the Grand
Canal ‘Venetian Life’ _W. D. Howells_ 221
The Beautie and
Magnificence of Venice ‘The Commonwealth
and Government of
Venice’ _Sir Lewes Lewkenor_ 355
The Birth of Venetian Art ‘The Renaissance
in Italy’ _Pompeo Molmenti_ 279
The Bride of the Sea ‘The Slopes of
Helicon’ _Lloyd Mifflin_ 53
The Charm of the Gondola ‘Anon’ ‘_The Standard_’ 135
The City of Enchantment ‘Venetian Life’ _W. D. Howells_ 96
The Colour of Venice ‘A Garden in
Venice’ _F. Eden_ 233
The Doge of Venice goes ‘Letters from
in State Italy’ _Goethe_ 364
The Enchanted Voice of ‘Modern
Venice Painters’ _John Ruskin_ 288
The Fairy Days of Venice ‘Lettres d’un
Voyageur’ _George Sand_ 33
The Glass Furnaces of
Murano ‘Familiar Letters’ _James Howell_ 177
The Golden Book of Venice ‘Memorials of a _Richard Monckton
Residence on Milnes_ (_Lord
the Continent’ Houghton_) 373
The Glory of Colour in
Italy ‘The Liberal’ _Leigh Hunt_ 234
The Glory of St. Mark’s ‘The Diary’ _John Evelyn_ 296
The Gondola ‘Beppo’ _Lord Byron_ 145
The Gondola ‘Italy’ _Samuel Rogers_ 151
The Gondolier’s Cry ‘The Stones of
Venice’ _John Ruskin_ 154
The Gondoliers of Venice ‘Curiosities of
Literature’ _Isaac D’Israeli_ 162
The Grand Canal ‘Italy’ _William Beckford_ 228
The Invitation to the ‘New and Old’ _John
Gondola Addington Symonds_ 144
The Jewelled Crown of ‘The Sea-Charm
Venice of Venice’ _Stopford A. Brooke_ 90
The Legend of St. Mark ‘Sacred Art’ _Mrs. Jameson_ 299
The Lagoons’ Phantom ‘Venice’ _Beryl de Sélincourt
Spell and May
Sturge-Henderson_ 109
The Lido ‘Letters from
Italy’ _Goethe_ 206
The Lido and its Graves ‘Memorials of a _Richard Monckton
Residence on Milnes_ (_Lord
the Continent’ Houghton_) 212
The Marriage of Venice ‘Purchas his
with the Sea Pilgrimes’ _George Sandys_ 363
The Mirror of the Lagoon ‘The Sea-Charm
of Venice’ _Stopford A. Brooke_ 197
The Origin of Venice ‘History of _Niccolo
Florence’ Machiavelli_ 345
The Quietude of the
Lagoon ‘Cities of Italy’ _Arthur Symons_ 114
The Songs of the
Gondoliers ‘Letters from Italy’ _Goethe_ 149
The Soul that Endures ‘Venice’ _Beryl de Sélincourt
and May
Sturge-Henderson_ 111
The Splendour of St.
Mark’s Coryat’s ‘Crudities’ _Thomas Coryat_ 291
‘The Sun of Venice going
to Sea’ ‘Modern
Painters’ _John Ruskin_ 128
The Throne of Venice ‘The Stones of
Venice’ _John Ruskin_ 78
The Unweariedness of
Venice ‘Venise’ _Charles Yriarte_ 123
The Venice of Carlo
Goldoni ‘Memoirs’ _Carlo Goldoni_ 368
The Venetian Serenade ‘Memorials of a _Richard Monckton
Residence on Milnes_ (_Lord
the Continent’ Houghton_) 380
This Lovely Venice! ‘A Journey
through Italy’ _Mrs. Piozzi_ 37
Three Venetian Feasts Coryat’s ‘Crudities’ _Thomas Coryat_ 263
Titian at Venice ‘Stories of the
Italian Artists’ _Vasari_ 285
To an Old Venetian
Painting ‘Collected Sonnets’ _Lloyd Mifflin_ 284
To an Old Venetian
Wineglass ‘At the Gates of
Song’ _Lloyd Mifflin_ 375
To Chioggia with Oar and
Sail ‘A Venetian _John
Medley’ Addington Symonds_ 193
To Gian Bellini ‘Adriatica’ _Percy Pinkerton_ 284
Torcello ‘The Stones of
Venice’ _John Ruskin_ 180
To Venice ‘Poems’ _Mrs. Hemans_ 38
To Venice: A Farewell ‘Poems’ _Cesare Morandi_ 131
Towards Venice ‘Life on the
Lagoons’ _Horatio F. Brown_ 76
Upon a Cupboard of
Venice-Glasses ‘Poems’ _James Howell_ 185
Veneta Marina ‘Poems’ _Arthur Symons_ 316
Venetian Belles ‘Beppo’ _Lord Byron_ 260
Venetian Caffès ‘A Family Party’ _T. Adolphus
Trollope_ 249
Venetian Dames ‘The Diary’ _John Evelyn_ 367
Venetian Enchantment ‘Random Rambles’ _Louise Chandler
Moulton_ 10
Venetian Night ‘Poems’ _Arthur Symons_ 317
Venetian Nocturne ‘Collected _A. Mary F. Robinson_
Poems’ (_Madame Duclaux_) 315
Venetian Spell ‘From a Venetian
Balcony’ _Lady Lindsay_ 110
Venice ‘Poems’ _Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow_ 9
Venice ‘Poems’ _Owen Meredith_ 113
Venice ‘Memorials of a
Tour on the _Richard Monckton
Continent’ Milnes_ 290
Venice ‘Poems’ _Alan Sullivan_ 56
Venice and her Children ‘The Uscoque’ _George Sand_ 270
Venice at Twilight ‘Poems’ _Hélène Vacaresco_ 339
Venice from the Euganean
Hills ‘Poems’ _Percy B. Shelley_ 91
Venice in Autumn ‘Adriatica’ _Percy Pinkerton_ 331
Venice in Winter ‘Marietta’ _Francis Marion
Crawford_ 341
Venice: Its Pleasurable
Melancholy ‘Venise’ _Charles Yriarte_ 116
Venice: Night Illusion--
Morning Reality ‘Venise’ _Charles Yriarte_ 306
Venice seen in the
Distance ‘Italy’ _William Beckford_ 72
Venice: Some Sixteenth-
Century Characteristics ‘Hakluyt’s Voyages’ _Laurence Aldersey_ 353
Venice: That Rare City ‘Familiar Letters’ _James Howell_ 39
Venice the Enchantress ‘The Makers of
Venice’ _Mrs. Oliphant_ 7
Venice: The End of Winter ‘Nova Primavera’ _Enrico Albini_ 341
Venice: The Gem of the
World Coryat’s ‘Crudities’ _Thomas Coryat_ 62
Venice the Proud ‘Poems’ _Mrs. Hemans_ 35
Venice the Unfallen ‘Venetia’ _Lord Beaconsfield_ 235
Venice under the
Starlight ‘Venise’ _Charles Yriarte_ 129
‘Venice, whose Name did ‘Memorials of a
once adorn the World’ Tour on the _Richard Monckton
Continent’ Milnes_ 52
Venise ‘Poems’ _Alfred de Musset_ 46
Were Life but as the
Gondola ‘Poems’ _Arthur Hugh Clough_ 148
Written at Venice ‘Memorials of a _Richard Monckton
Residence on Milnes_ (_Lord
the Continent’ Houghton_) 5
Youth in Venice ‘The Two Foscari’ _Lord Byron_ 119
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