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Ah, if this did last, it would be in very truth because there would no longer be a God in heaven, nor a France on earth! From the play, "Foscari" Doge. What! didst thou never hear Of the old prediction that was verified When I became the Doge? Zeno. An old prediction! Doge.
Speechless did he gaze on the daring assassin, who stood before him calm and haughty, unappalled by the majesty of the greatest man in Venice. Abellino nodded to him with an air of familiar protection, and graciously condescended to grin upon him with a kind of half- friendly smile. "Abellino," said the Doge, at length, endeavouring to recollect himself, "thou art a fearful a detestable man."
The great Council Chamber was used for the first time on the day when Foscari entered the Senate as Doge the 3rd of April, 1423, according to the "Caroldo Chronicle;" the 23d, which is probably correct, by an anonymous MS., No. 60, in the Correr Museum; and the following year, on the 27th of March, the first hammer was lifted up against the old palace of Ziani.
I would not have turned aside to allow even the Doge to pass, and I do not believe that since Satan fell from heaven, any creature was ever prouder or more insolent than I. I went to the Ridotto, and played with a luck which seemed absolutely infernal. I received the best of all society the sons of ruined families, women of the theatre, shrewd knaves, parasites, hectoring swashbucklers.
So great a marvel was this vegetable garden at Versailles that it was the object of a pilgrimage of the Doge of Venice in 1685, and of the Siamese ambassadors in the following year. The garden has been preserved as an adjunct to Versailles up to the present day.
Yes, every one who belonged to Venice. For the young Nicolò, the last survivor of their ancient name, was already set apart from the world by his priestly vows, amid the quiet groves of the island of San Nicolò. It was a pretty romance all those noble councillors, trembling from fear of the extinction of this most ancient and princely house, framing humble petitions to the Holy Father; the youthful monk, leaving the tranquil solitude of his island sanctuary, unfrocked with honor by a Pope's decree, to don the crimson robe of senator and wed the daughter of the Doge! And later, when sons and daughters many had risen up to call them blessed, the old haunting charm of the convent reasserting itself, the return of the Giustinian this solitary link between the long lines of his noble house, before and after to his lonely cell on San Nicolò; the retirement of the Lady Anna from the sweet motherhood of her home to reign as Lady Abbess in the convent of Sant' Elen
"Venice is a fine city; I have always had a fancy to go there." The old man's face lighted up, the wrinkles began to work, he was violently excited. "If I went with you, you would not lose your time," he said. "Don't talk about Venice to our Doge," put in the fiddle, "or you will start him off, and he has stowed away a couple of bottles as it is has the prince!"
Make out an open patent also to show that he and this captain travel as our messengers, charging all that do us service to forward them upon their journey." Three days later Hugh and Grey Dick, in the character of royal messengers from the King of England to the Doge of Venice, took passage in a great vessel bound for Genoa with a cargo of wool and other goods.
When we contemplate the Doge Dandolo at eighty-three animating his troops from the deck of his galley, and the brave old blind King of Bohemia falling in the thickest of the fray at Crecy, it would seem as it there was no excuse for either physical, mental, or moral decrepitude short of the age of four score and ten."
He wanted a stimulant; some justification for living. "There is no shame in believing in those who speak fairly! There is honor, the honor of faith in mankind!" she cried penetratingly. "There is no shame in being the victim of lies!" "No! No shame!" the Doge cried, rising unsteadily to his feet under the whip. "And we are not afraid for the future!" she continued.
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