The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, Volum 1;Volum 155John Murray, 1871 |
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Pàgina ix
... seen elsewhere to classify and account for the different texts of the work , and to trace their mutual relation . As regards geographical elucidations , I may point to the explanation of the name Gheluchelan ( I. p . 55 ) , to the ...
... seen elsewhere to classify and account for the different texts of the work , and to trace their mutual relation . As regards geographical elucidations , I may point to the explanation of the name Gheluchelan ( I. p . 55 ) , to the ...
Pàgina xxxiv
... seen ; seeing that such an accom- plishment was possessed by very few in his day , and he had had a large part of his nurture among those uncultivated Tartars , without any regular training in the art of composition . His Book indeed ...
... seen ; seeing that such an accom- plishment was possessed by very few in his day , and he had had a large part of his nurture among those uncultivated Tartars , without any regular training in the art of composition . His Book indeed ...
Pàgina xxxix
... seen . Messer Marco the elder being dead , the wife of Messer Nicolo who had been left at home with child , gave birth to a son , to whom she gave the name of Marco in memory of the deceased , and this is the Author of our Book . Of the ...
... seen . Messer Marco the elder being dead , the wife of Messer Nicolo who had been left at home with child , gave birth to a son , to whom she gave the name of Marco in memory of the deceased , and this is the Author of our Book . Of the ...
Pàgina lv
... seen that Ramusio places the scene of the story recently alluded to at the mansion in the parish of S. Giovanni Grisostomo , the court of which was Probable known in his time as the Corte del Millione ; and in- deed he speaks of the ...
... seen that Ramusio places the scene of the story recently alluded to at the mansion in the parish of S. Giovanni Grisostomo , the court of which was Probable known in his time as the Corte del Millione ; and in- deed he speaks of the ...
Pàgina lviii
... seen on the north side of the Court an arched doorway in Italo - Byzantine style , richly sculptured with scrolls , disks , and symbolical animals , and on the wall above the doorway is a cross similarly ornamented . The style and the ...
... seen on the north side of the Court an arched doorway in Italo - Byzantine style , richly sculptured with scrolls , disks , and symbolical animals , and on the wall above the doorway is a cross similarly ornamented . The style and the ...
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The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms ..., Volum 1 Marco Polo Previsualització limitada - 2010 |
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Pàgina 263 - In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, io Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Pàgina 168 - So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
Pàgina 375 - All these pieces of paper are issued with as much solemnity and authority as if they were of pure gold or silver; and on every piece a variety of officials, whose duty it is, have to write their names, and to put their seals. And when all is prepared duly, the chief officer deputed by the...
Pàgina 208 - My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Pàgina cxxvi - ... times to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian Empire of Abyssinia, and the semi-Christian Island of Socotra; to speak, though indeed dimly, of...
Pàgina 272 - They then extended a sheet or curtain over the spot, and one of the men putting himself under the sheet, in a few minutes came from below, followed by the individual supposed to have been cut into joints, in perfect health and condition, and one might have safely sworn that he had never received wound or injury whatever.
Pàgina 187 - But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
Pàgina 131 - Ashishin to send on any mission, he would cause that potion whereof I spoke to be given to one of the youths in the garden, and then had him carried into his palace. So when the young man awoke he found himself in the castle, and no longer in that Paradise, whereat he was not over-well pleased.
Pàgina 361 - ... for the lodgment of merchants from different parts of the world, and a special hostelry is assigned to each description of people, as if we should say there is one for the Lombards, another for the Germans, and a third for the Frenchmen...
Pàgina 159 - Now, if we go on with our journey towards the eastnorth-east, we travel a good forty days, continually passing over mountains and hills, or through valleys, and crossing many rivers and tracts of wilderness. And in all this way you find neither habitation of man, nor any green thing, but must carry with you whatever you require.