Giovanni Sbogarro: A Venetian Tale. [Taken from the French], Volume 2C.S. Van Winkle, 1820 |
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Page 6 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand...
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Page 39 - Tis sweet to hear At midnight on the blue and moonlit deep The song and oar of Adria's gondolier, By distance mellow'd, o'er the waters sweep; 'Tis sweet to see the evening star appear; 'Tis sweet to listen as the night-winds creep From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky.
Page 221 - What awfull silence ! How these antique towers And vacant courts chill the suspended soul, Till expectation wears the cast of fear; And fear, half-ready to become devotion, Mumbles a kind of mental orison, It knows not wherefore.
Page 5 - In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;
Page 15 - Next Anger rush'd : his eyes on fire, In lightnings, own'd his secret stings : In one rude clash he struck the lyre, And swept with hurried hand the strings.
Page 8 - And down the briny street; where on each hand, Amazing seen amid unstable waves, The splendid palace shines ; and rising tides, The green steps marking, murmur at the door. To this fair Queen of Adria's stormy gulf, The mart of nations ? long, obedient seas Roll'd all the treasure of the radiant East.
Page 49 - That still they live and shine, and ne'er will die, Till in a moment, with the last day's brand They burn, and with them burn sea, air, and land.
Page 149 - Stay, I fancy I'm now turn'd wild, a commoner of nature; Of all forsaken, and forsaking all, Live in a shady forest's sylvan scene, Stretch'd at my length beneath some blasted oak, I lean my head upon the mossy bark, And look just of a piece as I grew from it : My uncomb'd locks, matted like mistletoe, Hang o'er my hoary face ; a murm'ring brook Runs at my foot Vent.