[ [ef]——seaborn palaces.—[Alternative reading. 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 Staël, 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.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [ei] {414}——Has he no name?—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [ej] His voice and carriage——.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]
[ [ek] {415} If so withdraw and fly and tell me not.—[Alternative reading. MS. M.]