...of attractions as many of his contemporary tourists. Although he tells us in Childe Harold IV that 'In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, / And silent rows the songless gondolier' (Hi), Hobhouse's note to these lines gives a full account of how he and Byron rowed to the Lido with...

...feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increased. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, 20 And silent rows the songless gondolier; Her palaces...the shore, And music meets not always now the ear: 1n Those days are gone - but Beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade - but Nature doth not die,...

...dowers from spoils of nations, and the exhaustless east pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more And silent rows...gondolier Her palaces are crumbling to the shore. . . (Byron) discuss - Venice, the maze (le labyrinthe) of the streets, the beauty of the light etc......