 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...intervals, and lowering a draw-bridge, opened a way through the air from their masts to the rampart. In the midst of the conflict, the doge, a venerable...aloft in complete armour on the prow of his galley. The great standard of St. Mark was displayed before him; his threats, promises, and exhortations, urged... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 482 pages
...intervals, and lowering a drawbridge, opened a way through the air from their masts to the rampart. In the midst of the conflict, the Doge, a venerable and conspicuous form, P 4, stood (N° 89. 95. &.c.), Englois et Danois avec leurs haches. Whatever had been their origin,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...intervals, and lowering a drawbridge, opened a way through the air from their masts to the rampart. In the midst of the conflict, the doge, a venerable...aloft in complete armour on the prow of his galley. The great standard of St. Mark was displayed before him ; his threats, promises, and exhortations,... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Byzantine Empire - 1830 - 584 pages
...supported by the navy of Venice, and its warlike admiral. " In the midst of the conflict," says Gibbon,* " the Doge, a venerable and conspicuous form, stood...aloft in complete armour on the prow of his galley, the great standard of St. Mark was displayed before him, his exhortations urged the diligence of his... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1851 - 694 pages
...intervals, and lowering a draw-bridge, opened a way through the air from their masts to the rampart. In the midst of the conflict, the doge, a venerable and conspicuous form, stood aloft in complete armor on the prow of his galley. The great standard of St. Mark was displayed before him ; his threats,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 502 pages
...intervals, and lowering a drawbridge, opened a way through the air from their masts to the rampart In the midst of the conflict the doge, a venerable...aloft in complete armour on the prow of his galley. The great standard of St. Mark was displayed before him ; his threats, promises, and exhortations urged... | |
 | William Robson - Sieges - 1855 - 684 pages
...intervals and lowering a drawbridge, opened a way through the air from their masts to the rampart. In the midst of the conflict, the doge, a venerable...aloft in complete armour, on the prow of his galley. The great standard of St. Mark was displayed before him ; his threats, promises, and exhortations urged... | |
 | Compendium - 1858 - 134 pages
...Doge of Venice, (Dandolo,) the commanders in the Fourth Crusade, Alexis IV. was raised to the throne. He was afterwards murdered; and, on the pretext of...his galley, and was the first warrior on the shore." Qibbon. 536. Baldwin was raised to the throne, and from that time till AD 1261, two Latin Emperors... | |
 | Robert Raikes Raymond - Recitations - 1864 - 530 pages
...perils of war, so that the historian describes him in words again applicable to our day, saying, " In the midst of the conflict the Doge, a venerable and conspicuous form, stood aloft, in complete armor, on the prow of the galley, while the great standard of St. Mark was displayed before him." Before... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1870 - 436 pages
...intervals and lowering a drawbridge, opened a way through the air from their masts to the rampart. In the midst of the conflict the Doge, a venerable...aloft in complete armour on the prow of his galley. The great standard of St. Mark was displayed before him ; his threats, promises, and exhortations urged... | |
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... the intervals, and lowering a drawbridge, opened a way through the air from their masts to the rampart In the midst of the conflict the doge, a venerable and conspicuous form, stood aloft in complete armour on the prow of his galley. The great standard... 
