 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.  History of English Literature - Page 20by Hippolyte Taine - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...of the buildings in the engines and towers, with which on every side he attacked the city. Gibbon. I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace...rise, As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand. Byron'i Childe Harolde. BR i DC E, in architecture, is awork either of stone, timber, or iron, consisting... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Authors, English - 1830 - 532 pages
...and euiig of that fair City of the Sea thus grandly : I stood ÍD V ire on the Bridge of Sighs ; Л palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out...years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying gloty smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged lion's marble piles,... | |
 | Europe - 1830 - 400 pages
...acquittance "1'hapagata." " He has paid it !" 1/niicn.Pc.r" :\" . i' ' by.I VENICE. THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS. I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace...the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of an enchanter's wand. A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - Italy - 1830 - 594 pages
...paid it!" Loudon Rib* uct*:& 1E2!- by.Botcrt Jermiuga «? O.eapside i VENICE. THE BRIDGE OF SIGIIS. ! stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace...the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of an enchanter's wand. A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Authors, English - 1830 - 528 pages
...enchanter'» wand : A thousand year* their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory gmiles Thee, my God, to Thee I call 1 Whatever weal or woe betide, By thy command I rise or fall, In thy late in state, throned on her bundred Ules. But, whatever emotions the first sight of such a scene... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1830 - 386 pages
...pain, If such there were— with you, the moral of his strain! CLXXXVI. NOTES TO CANTO IV. I &tood 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 ducal palace and the prisons of Venice is by... | |
 | 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... | |
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