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40394A Corinthian capital is a beautiful form; but why should the hand of man be kept back from devising other beautiful forms?
40394Again, would Venetian taste have allowed such clumsy substitutes for columns as these?
40394And now the question comes, Is the island of Korkyra the Scheriê of Homer?
40394And, if in some things it is less purely Greek than the rest of that kingdom, what is the cause?
40394And, if they had been meant as badges of dominion, would they not have stood in the forum rather than in the court of the Patriarch''s palace?
40394Are they Saracens whose forms record the memories of some returning Crusader?
40394Are we to seek here for the justification of the frontier which struck us as artificial and needless?
40394As he first saw the mighty bell- tower, he asks,"What were our thoughts?
40394But are we to take the"royal faith"in the same sense as the"royal law"of the New Testament?
40394But can we look for such badges at Aquileia?
40394But how far is that admiration the result of mere wonder at something which in any case is strange and striking?
40394But how far ought he to proclaim to the world the merits of the place which he has found out for himself?
40394But how shall the traveller find his way to Aquileia?
40394But may we confess to the weakness of looking at all these things only from the deck of the steamer?
40394But where was the Hêraion, the temple of Hêrê, which plays a part in more than one of the Thucydidean narratives?
40394But who burned the village, and why?
40394Did those whose names were written-- for of course few, if any, would write them themselves-- come to the book, or did the book go to them?
40394Does he blame the capitals, which certainly do not follow the exact pattern of any Vitruvian order?
40394Does he blame the massive abaci?
40394Does not this show a lurking sign of what was coming, a lurking feeling that the arch itself was the true architrave?
40394Does some pedantic Vitruvian brand the columns as too short?
40394Final conquest of Dalmatia 6 Martyrdom of Saint Caius 296?
40394How can he draw the line, so as to lead travellers to come, without holding out the least inducement to mere tourists?
40394How does a mass of white limestone come to be called the Black Mountain?
40394If we were to have Alexander and Arthur, why not the rest of the nine worthies?
40394In other words, which represents the præ- Roman city, and which represents its enlargement in Roman times?
40394Is the mound natural or artificial?
40394Is this he whose name has been rightly or wrongly added to certain annals of Bari?
40394Let us answer boldly, Why should art be put in fetters?
40394Now, which was the elder part of the two?
40394On whom rests the blame?
40394Or are we to believe that the Morlacchi used the turban as their head- dress before the Ottoman came?
40394Otranto was the last of the conquests of the great Conqueror; what if he had been longer- lived?
40394Salona, he will answer, is in Dalmatia, and how can there be more than one way of sounding the_ omega_ in the second syllable?
40394Shall we say_ Görz_,_ Gorizia_, or_ Gorici_?
40394Was it a Christian village burned by Turks?
40394Was it a Christian village burned by its own inhabitants rather than leave anything to fall into the hands of the Turks?
40394Was it a Christian village burned by the insurgents because its inhabitants refused to join in the insurrection?
40394Was it a Turkish village burned by Christians?
40394Was it a commonwealth by itself, cradled on the channel of Brazza like Gersau on the Lake of the Four Cantons?
40394Was the present citadel, the true[ Greek: Koryphô], itself always an island, as it is now?
40394Was the winged lion ever set up, and then taken down again?
40394We are again driven to ask, Which is the dialect of the Romans?
40394What are we to say to the modern rival of Venice, the upstart rebel, one is tempted to say, against the supremacy of the Hadriatic Queen?
40394What but of poor Mark Antony de Dominis?"
40394What if his work in some sort failed?
40394What name shall we give to the style of this most remarkable building, at all events to the style of its admirable arcade?
40394What tongue is meant by[ Greek: Rhômaisti]?
40394What word either of Greek or of Latin can the Emperor have got hold of?
40394Who was this Jovianus?
40394Would the devotion of the Most Serene Republic have allowed its patron anywhere so lowly a place as this to occupy?
40394Would the threat of the first Sultan have been carried out, and would the Turk have fed his horse on the high altar of Saint Peter''s?
40394and where was the island opposite to the Hêraion--[Greek: pros to Hêraion]--and the isle of Ptychia, both of which appear in his history?
40394how far is it a really intelligent approval of beauty or artistic skill?
40394or does it mean the"royal faith,"as being set up under some orthodox Emperor, when the orthodoxy of Emperors was still a new thing?
40394that to the east or that to the west?
40394what if the second Bajazet had deserved the name of Thunderbolt like the first?
47723A serving- maid? 47723 And what,"snarled old Giovanni,"is that mongrel Bosnian but a vandal?
47723And why not I, lord,she asked,"as well as another?
47723And, lord,she said, watching him,"if it is true-- sufficiently true-- would you suffer that for my sake?
47723Are these men?
47723Are we Huns, to insult women? 47723 But what can we do?"
47723But why? 47723 But,"said he, dropping his voice to a whisper-- he did not know why--"but_ you-- you_?"
47723Danger?
47723Do you-- understand Italian?
47723Does it matter?
47723Does that matter?
47723Forgive you?
47723How could I do otherwise?
47723Is it likely,he wondered, aloud,"that the ban will go out of his way to attack the island?
47723Madonna Santissima, what can we do? 47723 Oh, what have I done?
47723Once more,said he,"will you stand out of my way and let me go?"
47723Pity?
47723Princess,said he, after a little silence,"it is true, what men say of you?"
47723She''s still here, lord?
47723That woman in Arbe? 47723 The galley got safe away?"
47723The woman is here? 47723 Unharmed?"
47723What danger?
47723What danger?
47723What do you-- mean?
47723What have I done?
47723What is it,he said,"that-- has come to me to rob me of strength and thought when I am near you?
47723What was it you said?
47723What,said he at last, very gently,"is to become of you and me?"
47723Where is God that hell could devise such a wrong? 47723 Who is-- that who sits there dead?"
47723Why did I not know? 47723 Why do you tell me this?"
47723Why not let your barbarians capture us-- put us to death? 47723 Will you tell me once again?"
47723Will you tell me,he said at last, turning-- it was a certain relief to break the strain they had been under--"will you tell me how we came here?
47723Yaga?
47723You have-- heard?
47723You serve that vile fiend in human flesh, that royal strumpet, that wanton at whose name men spit? 47723 _ You-- you_,"she cried, in a breathless whisper, her hands at her mouth,--"_you_ are-- Zuan-- Gradenigo?"
47723''Likely,''say you?
47723A serving- maid?
47723An enemy?
47723Did I not?
47723Do you wish the whole island to know we are here?"
47723Forgive you?"
47723How came a wandering child by such eyes?
47723I tried, lord, did I not?
47723Lord, do you not understand?
47723Lord, will you not do this?"
47723Lord,_ why_ do you sit there silent?
47723Oh, lord, have you nothing but curses for a woman who is dead and can not answer you?"
47723Queen bee, say I?
47723That shameless, thieving wanton who stole away Natalia Volutich?"
47723What do you know of me?
47723What have I done?"
47723What have you done with her, princess?"
47723What is it that came to me last night when you first crept into the fisherman''s hut and I saw your eyes?"
47723What is that?"
47723What was God doing that you should stray into such clutches and He not know?
47723When shall I come to you for instructions and authority?
47723Who are the families concerned?
47723Who is it?"
47723Why are you here with me now in hiding?
47723Why are you not in the castle where you should be?"
47723Why did I not know?"
47723Why did you save me, princess?
47723Why do you wish to defeat your own cause?
47723Why not do that?
47723Why not set sail at once with her on board-- at once, before they in the city know she is taken?
47723Why not?
47723Why will you not take me on board your ship and sail away?"
47723Why?"
47723Why?"
47723Will Arbe ever be clean from her-- even when we have washed its stones with her blood?
47723Will you forgive me, lord?"
47723Will you not hold me hostage for your island?
47723Will you not set sail with me and leave Arbe?
47723Will you say to me that I, woman of infamy though men call me, am dearer to you than everything else in the world?"
47723Would you give up all that to go with me?"
47723Would you have me skulk here while my men are fighting?
47723You have not let her go?"
47723_ Will_ you not listen to me?"
47723_ You?_"The girl stared at him under her brows.
47723she cried again, shaking his arm with her two hands,"will you not do this?