 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...  The Writing and Reading of Verse - Side 161af Clarence Edward Andrews - 1918 - 327 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Paul Rodgers - 1836 - 232 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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...expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 352 sider
...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,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 sider
...lately given a new fife 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...wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter1! wind : A thousand yean their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles O'er... | |
 | 1866 - 856 sider
...counted its towers, its windows, its very bricks on the photographic canvas of Canaletti ? Who has not stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, a palace and a prison on each hand, and peered in fancy into the golden chambers of the one, fit frames for the glowing glories of art... | |
 | William Fullerton Cumming - 1839 - 838 sider
...Byron. Wrote my own near that of the illustrious Bard, whose words I may now quote with truth — " I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each side." The Palace of the Doge, with its associations, dungeons, &c. is by far tue most interesting... | |
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