 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...  History of English Literature - Page 282by Hippolyte Taine - 1871Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 336 pages
...historiques ou poétiques ; et notre promenade , je suis presque honteux de (l) I sioocl in Vcnice on thc Bridge of Sighs : A palace and a prison on each hand, I saw from out thé wave her structure rise As from thc stroke of thé enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - English letters - 1831 - 572 pages
...had lately given a new life to its glories, and sung of that fair City of the Sea thus grandly : " I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land I.ook'd to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles."... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Venice (Italy) - 1831 - 314 pages
...have been obnoxious to this proof, the reader is left to judge for himself. THE BRAVO. CHAPTER 1. " I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the winged lions' marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles."... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 290 pages
...the Bridge of Sighs ; (I) A palace and a prison on each hand : I saxv from out the wave her structure rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A...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... | |
 | 1831 - 472 pages
...had lately given a new life to its glories, and sung of that fair City of the Sea thus grandly : " I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from ont tbe wave her structures rise As from the stroke of tbe enchanters waud : A thousand years their... | |
 | 1831 - 702 pages
...such scenes wear a double charm. Lord Byron commences his celebrated description of Venice, with — " I stood in Venice, on the bridge of sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : " In like manner I begin by the description of a bridge ; but the analogy goes no further — it... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 358 pages
...the pain. If snch there were — with yon, the moral of hi. strain ! NOTES TO CANTO IV. 1. 1 stoud in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand. Stanza i. lines 1 and 2. The communication between the dncal palace and the prisous of Venice is by... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 618 pages
...band : I saw from oat the ware her structurel rue Ля from the stroke of the enchanter's wanii : Л thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smilei O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged lion's marble piles. Where... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 384 pages
...lately given a new life to its glories, and sung of that fair City of the Sea thus grandly : — " I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace...subject land 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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 512 pages
...who had lately given a new life to its glories, and sung of that fair city of the sea thus grandly : I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace...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... | |
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