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" Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers. And such she was; her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured in... "
Notes of a Twelve Years' Voyage of Discovery in the First Six Books of the Eneis - Page 23
by James Henry - 1853 - 586 pages
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 82

1857 - 922 pages
...exact. But to the gorgeous art of Venice in her gloiy we cannot yet attain. Of Venice it is said, " In purple was she robed, and of her feast monarchs partook ;" and, accordingly, her palace-art was sumptuous and ornate. In like manner our own school of painting, under...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral, & philosophical ...

1834 - 614 pages
...she was, — her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Pouir'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers; In purple...Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased. In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

1821 - 444 pages
...Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles! 4 She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with...Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased. In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling...
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Childe Harold's pilgrimage, a romaunt. (Harrow ed.).

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 290 pages
...Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred Isles ! II. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, (2) Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance,...Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased. K 3 In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, (3) And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces...
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The Imperial Magazine

1834 - 604 pages
...she was, — her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Pour*d in her lap all gems in sparkling showers ; In purple...Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased. In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 22

1850 - 712 pages
...islands were never pressed by the foot of a hostile stranger. " Her daughters had their dowers From the spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured...Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased." In the twelfth century she stood at the head of maritime nations, and furnished fleets for the crusades....
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Catalogue of a Private Collection of Paintings and Original Drawings by ...

Düsseldorf Gallery (New York, N.Y.) - 1851 - 98 pages
...says, *' Her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured into her lap all gems in sparkling showers, In purple was...Monarchs partook and deemed their dignity increased ! How could a painter make such a woman other than magnificent ? The drawing of this picture is excellent,...
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Notes of Foreign Travel

Jacob B. Wood - 1852 - 192 pages
...she was ; — her daughters had their dowers From spoils of cations, and the exhaustless East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple...Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased." BYRON'S Childe Harold is, in fact, a perfect guide book for Switzerland and Italy ; better, indeed,...
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Second collection of instructive extracts: no.vi of a new series of school-books

Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 pages
...she was ;—her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple...her feast Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increaee.l. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces...
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Shakespeare's Scholar: Being Historical and Critical Studies of His Text ...

Richard Grant White - 1854 - 596 pages
...man of lago's rank for her waiting woman ! a noble lady of that queenly city, of which Byron says, " Her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations,...Monarchs partook and deemed their dignity increased ! " Childe Harold, Canto IV. 2. How could a painter make such a woman other than magnificent ? There...
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