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IV. ST. mark's. 117
irrevocably, because she forgot it without excuse. Never had
city a more glorious Bible. Among the nations of the North,
a rude and shadowy sculpture filled their temples with confused and hardly legible imagery; but, for her, the skill and
the treasures of the East had gilded every letter, and illumined
every page, till the Book-Temple shone from afar off like the
star of the Magi. In other cities, the meetings of the people
were often in places withdrawn from religious association, subject to violence and to change ; and on the grass of the dangerous rampart, and in the dust of the troubled street, there
were deeds done and counsels taken, which, if we cannot justify, we may sometimes forgive. But the sins of Venice,
whether in her palace or in her piazza, were done with the
Bible at her right hand. The walls on which its testimony
was written were separated but by a few inches of marble from
those which guarded the secrets of her councils, or confined the
victims of her policy. And when in her last hours she threw
off all shame and all restraint, and the great square of the city
became filled with the madness of the whole earth, be it remembered how much her sin was greater, because it was done
in the face of the House of God, burning with the letters of
Llis Law. Mountebank and masquer laughed their laugh, and
went their way; and a silence has followed them, not unfore-
told ; for amidst them all, through century after century of
gathering vanity and festering guilt, that white dome of St.
Mark's had uttered in the dead ear of Venice, " Know thou,
that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment."
| Title | The stones of Venice - 2 |
| Creator | Ruskin, John |
| Publisher | J. Wiley |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1889 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000139 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | IV. ST. mark's. 117 irrevocably, because she forgot it without excuse. Never had city a more glorious Bible. Among the nations of the North, a rude and shadowy sculpture filled their temples with confused and hardly legible imagery; but, for her, the skill and the treasures of the East had gilded every letter, and illumined every page, till the Book-Temple shone from afar off like the star of the Magi. In other cities, the meetings of the people were often in places withdrawn from religious association, subject to violence and to change ; and on the grass of the dangerous rampart, and in the dust of the troubled street, there were deeds done and counsels taken, which, if we cannot justify, we may sometimes forgive. But the sins of Venice, whether in her palace or in her piazza, were done with the Bible at her right hand. The walls on which its testimony was written were separated but by a few inches of marble from those which guarded the secrets of her councils, or confined the victims of her policy. And when in her last hours she threw off all shame and all restraint, and the great square of the city became filled with the madness of the whole earth, be it remembered how much her sin was greater, because it was done in the face of the House of God, burning with the letters of Llis Law. Mountebank and masquer laughed their laugh, and went their way; and a silence has followed them, not unfore- told ; for amidst them all, through century after century of gathering vanity and festering guilt, that white dome of St. Mark's had uttered in the dead ear of Venice, " Know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment." |
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