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
| 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
...affectionate friend, BYRON. Vmitci, January Ļ, 1818. I. I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; (1) Л : Л thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles O'er the far times,... | |
| 1868 - 414 pages
...criminals have often been led to a cruel and mysterious death. It is called the " Bridge of Sighs." " I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs : A palace and a prison on each hand.' But of the grandeurs of the one, or the horrors of the other, I have not space to write. After seeing... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 pages
...rf _.. IwUv «•< J. — ». JC I.' r . ; I TW » r ;. .r.-.iriZ£. : CANTO THE FOURTH. STANZA i. I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : THE communication between the Ducal palace and the prisons of Venice is by a gloomy bridge, or covered... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...completed state ; and repeat once more how truly I am ever, Tour obliged And affectionate friend, BYRON. I. I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace...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... | |
| English literature - 1842 - 416 pages
...described with great inequality ; of which the first stanza may be cited as an average specimen : — " I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs — A palace...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
...unshorn: Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien. VENICE. 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, thron'd on her hundred Isles She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from Ocean, Rising... | |
| 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.... | |
| 1843 - 582 pages
...A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around him, and a dying glory smiles O'er the far timea when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where VENICE sat in state, throned on her hundred isles." PHI. SONG OF TIME. I COME, I come, and my... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...unshorn: Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien. VENICE. 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, thron'd on her hundred Isles She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from Ocean, Rising... | |
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