 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...  The Idler in Italy - Page 124by Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1858 - 168 pages
...hundred towns and villages of England ; and jurisdiction over the river from Staines to Gravesend. A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles Over the far times. On every account this church has a paramount claim on our regard — as a rich... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 478 pages
...obnoxious to this proof, the reader is left to j udge for himself. THE BRAVO. CHAPTER I. " I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the winged lions' marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles."... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 476 pages
...I. " I stood In Venico on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from ont the wave her structures rise, As from the stroke of...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the winged lions' marble piles, "Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles."... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1864 - 502 pages
...each hand ; I saw from out the ware her structures rise, As from the stroke of the enchanter's waud ; A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the winged lions' marble piles, Where Venice sat In state, throned on her hundred Isles."... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1860 - 490 pages
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 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 pages
...the world of nature. He stood in the Adriatic City, and its ancient splendour rose to his vision :— "A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around...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 V... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1860 - 252 pages
...A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the strtkt of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy...expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles O'er the fi. — mes, when many a suh|ect land Look'd to the winged Lion's marhle piles, Where Venice sate in... | |
 | Mackenzie Edward C. Walcott - 1860 - 300 pages
...hundred towns and villages in England ; and jurisdiction ' over the river from Staines to Gravesend. M. I A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles Over the far times. On every account this church has a paramount claim on our regard — as a rich... | |
 | William E. Kendall - 1860 - 148 pages
...high and palmy days have passed. yet she can be viewed even now only with amazement and admiration. " A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory LSiniles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the winged lion's marble piles, Where... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 pages
...state; and :cpt« once more how truly I am ever Your obliged and affectionate friend, BYRON. I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; ' A palace and a...glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject laid Look'd to the winged Lion's marbl» piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her huitdra... | |
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