Or village, anywhere i' the world, pace up or down

Europe! In all the maze, no single tenement

I saw, but I could claim acquaintance with.

CVIII

There went

Conviction to my soul, that what I took of late

For Venice was the world; its Carnival—the state

Of mankind, masquerade in life-long permanence

For all time, and no one particular feast-day. Whence

'T was easy to infer what meant my late disgust