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" 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... "
The Paisley magazine Vol 1 - Page 587
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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
...throne !" 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 the stroke of the enchanters wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles O'er...
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The Works of Lord Byron: In Verse and Prose. Including His Letters, Journals ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...sights surround. I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of sighs ;' A palace and a prison on each hand : withh - Oe.- the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice...
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Writings of Professor B. B. Edwards, Volume 1

Bela Bates Edwards, Edwards Amasa Park - 1853 - 516 pages
...over the council-chamber where the ' most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors ' were once met, and " Looked to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles." We sailed every day in the gondolas, and we have brought away one in our trunk. We sailed one day to...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 pages
...CANTO THE FOURTH. 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...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!...
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The Alps, Switzerland and the North of Italy: With Numerous Engravings

Charles Williams - 1854 - 668 pages
...Childe Harold :"— " 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...thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dyinj glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the winged lion's marble...
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Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century

Kenneth Meyer Setton - 1991 - 520 pages
...the historic past: 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...Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles. . . . In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent...
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A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pages
...I stood in Venice, on the 'Bridge of Sighs'; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out of the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the Enchanter's wand. Ckilde HaTold'x Pilgrimage opening of Canto 4 254 That soft bastard Latin Which melts like kisses from...
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The Argonaut, Volume 5

1875 - 398 pages
...Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs — A palace and a prison on each han_d ; I s aw, from out the waves, her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lions' marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles."...
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Paradoxie der Fiktion: literarische Venedig-Bilder 1797-1984

Angelika Corbineau-Hoffmann - 1993 - 690 pages
...ist dafür ebenso ein Mittel wie jenes Bild, das sich Childe Harold auf den ersten Blick bietet: / saw from out the wave her structures rise / As from the stroke of the Enchanter' s wand. 125 Doch der Zauberstab bringt nicht das Märchenhaft-Abweichende Venedigs zur Anschauung,...
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The Collected Poems of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 pages
...Canto IV.] 221 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...Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pues, Where Venice sate m state, throned on her hundred isles 1...
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