No More Learning

MS. M. ]

[433] {413}[Compare "What, ma'amselle, don't you remember Ludovico, who
rowed the Cavaliero's gondola at the last regatta, and won the prize?
and who used to sing such sweet verses about Orlando's . . . all under my
lattice . . . on the moonlight nights at Venice? "--_Mysteries of Udolpho_,
by Anne Radcliffe, 1882, p. 195. Compare, too, _Beppo_, stanza xv. lines
1-6, _vide ante_, p. 164.
]

[434] [Compare "The gondolas gliding down the canals are like coffins or
cradles . . . At night the darkness reveals the tiny lanterns which guide
these boats, and they look like shadows passing by, lit by stars.
Everything in this region is mystery--government, custom,
love. "--_Corinne or Italy_, by Madame de Stael, 1888, pp. 279, 280.
Compare, too--

"In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more,
And silent rows the songless Gondolier. "

_Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza iii. lines 1, 2,
_Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. note 3. ]

[eg] ----_or towering spire_. --[MS. M. ]

[eh] ----_at this moment_.