 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...  Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Lord Byron - Page 392by George Clinton - 1825 - 756 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1840 - 388 pages
...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 the stroke of the...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles !... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1840 - 336 pages
...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 the stroke of the...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged lion's marble piles, AVhere Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1841 - 348 pages
...our journey, and shortly afterwards arrived at St. Lizier AN EVENING IN VENICE. I saw from out the wave her structures rise, As from the stroke of the...Looked to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles. BYRON. " GIA ! Gia! avast, avast!" cried the sturdy gondolier,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 pages
..." 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...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, The former greatness of this queen of commerce is described... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : Л thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me,...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles!... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...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...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, [isles ! Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred... | |
 | 1842 - 416 pages
...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, and a dying glory smiles O'er the far times," &c. " O'er the far times !" — what an unceremonious dismissal of the metaphor of the "cloudy wings"... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...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...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, thron'd on her hundred Isles She... | |
 | 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...Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles. BYRON. THE Emperor Maximilian was unable to carry on, in person, the war he had successfully commenced... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...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...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, thron'd on her hundred Isles She... | |
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