 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
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1840 - 336 pages
...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...subject land Look'd to the winged lion's marble piles, AVhere Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles I She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 pages
...her hundred isles!" " 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, The former greatness of this queen of commerce is described and mingled with the recollections associated... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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, As from...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.... | |
 | 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... | |
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