 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 : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er...  Cities of Northern and Central Italy - Page 3by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens - 1841 - 348 pages
...circumstances rely, we resumed our journey, and shortly afterwards arrived at St. Lizier AN EVENING IN VENICE. I saw from out the wave her structures rise,...smiles * O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles.... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1841 - 390 pages
...as he has done.* » I stood at 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...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'il to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, thron'd on her hundred isles... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...January Ï, 1818. I. I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; (1) Л palace and a prison on each hand : ' fertility ; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which ca : Л thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles O'er the far times,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...friend, BYRON. I. 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...subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, [isles ! Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred II. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from... | |
 | 1842 - 416 pages
...specimen : — " 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." Then mark the maze of metaphor which follows. " A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...unalterable mien. VENICE. 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...Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, thron'd on her hundred Isles She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from Ocean, Rising with her... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1843 - 856 pages
...RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1813. TITIAN. CHAPTER I. D'ALVAINE'S TRIUMPH IN THE BUCENTAUR. A dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...unalterable mien. VENICE. 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...Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, thron'd on her hundred Isles She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from Ocean, Rising with her... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 pages
...the Bridge of Sighi ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I «a«r from out the ware her structure! rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand :...years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glorj smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged llon'i marble piles.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1844 - 414 pages
...to most beauties. * 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 : Venice is an exquisite courtezan. Whilst you gaze upon those beauties which first present themselves,... | |
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