 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pages
...immediate object of the present article. The poem opens in Venice, once the mart of the universe — " I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace...subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, 'Where Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles !" The former greatness of this queen of... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1836 - 486 pages
...have been obnoxious to this proof, the reader is left to judge for himself. THE BRAVO. CHAPTER I. " I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace...times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged lions' marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles." BYRON. THE sun had... | |
 | Paul Rodgers - 1836 - 232 pages
...accounts given of it in English travellers, let me tell them it is well worthy of their attention" 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...HISTORICAL NOTES CANTO THE FOURTH. HISTORICAL NOTES CANTO THE FOURTH. STATE DUNGEONS OF VENICE. " / stood 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 N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...affectionate friend, BYRON. Vanci, January 2, 1818. I. I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sight; (I) A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out...subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles! П. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 352 pages
...vaut mieux que les souvenirs." HISTORICAL NOTES TO CANTO IV. No. I. — STATE DUNGEONS OP VENICE. " I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand. — Stanza I. THE communication hetween the ducal palace and the prisons of Venice is hy a gloomy hridge,... | |
 | R. T. Claridge - 1837 - 268 pages
...such furniture as they desire, at moderate charges. YEN ICE. " A thousand years their cloudy wing* expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Louk'rl to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred i»le».'... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...Sigh« ; ( 1 ) A pabce and a prison on each hand : 1 saw from out the wave her structures rise Ai Cram the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Aroand ro>*, and a dying glory smiles O'fr the far times, when many a subject laud Lool'd to the winged... | |
 | 1838 - 1056 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 and a prison on each hand ; I taw from out the wave her structures rite As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand jean... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pages
...immediate object of the present article. The poem opens in Venice, once the mart of the universe — " I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each nand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand... | |
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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... 
