 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...  Angel in the Sun: Turner's Vision of History - Page 36by Gerald Finley - 1999 - 280 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...Ariosto, Satira iv. 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...Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles ! n. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean,3 Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 384 pages
...thus grandly : — " 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, throned in her hundred isles." But, whatever emotions the first sight of such a scene... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 512 pages
...sea thus grandly : 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...when many a subject land Look'd to the winged lion's marhle piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles. But, whatever emotions the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 658 pages
...Sea thus grandly: ' 1 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...to the winged lion's marble piles, ' Where Venice sat in state, throned in her hundred isles.' But, whatever emotions the first sight of such a scene... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1833 - 666 pages
...Sea thus grandly : 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...to the winged lion's marble piles, ' Where Venice sat in state, throned in her hundred isles.' But, whatever emotions the first sight of such a scene... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1833 - 252 pages
...THE BRAVO. CHAPTER L " I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sigha, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise. As from...times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged lions' marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles." BnoN. THE sun had disappeared... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 388 pages
...Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand: I saw from out the wave her structures rise Aa from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand...Look'd to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned in her hundred isles." But, whatever emotions the first sight of such * scene... | |
 | 1833 - 370 pages
...BRIDGE OF SIGHS. 1 stood in Venice, on the lïridge of Sighs, Л palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise, As from the atroke of an enchanter's wand, Л thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory... | |
 | 1834 - 604 pages
...STOOD at Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; 1 saw from out the waves her structures rise, As from the stroke of the enchanter's...times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged lions' marble piles, Where Venice sate in state throned on her hundred isles ! She looks a sea Cybele... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pages
...the universe — " 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...Lion's marble piles, 'Where Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles !" The former greatness of this queen of commerce is described and mingled... | |
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