 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
 | Edward Young - 1852 - 528 pages
...Namely, Venice. Says Byron — " I saw from out the -wave a structure riso As from the stroke of tbe enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the wing'd lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles."... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 502 pages
...their clondy wings expand Aronnd me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the for times, when many a snbjeet land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hnndred isles! She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, « Rising with her tiara of prond towers At... | |
 | 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...Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles! ii. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, 2 Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance,... | |
 | 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...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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lions' marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles." Whilst gently gliding... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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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