 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
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1846 - 310 sider
...unshorn: Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien. VENICE. 1 STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace...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 sat in state,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 sider
...1818. I. I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; {1} A Bailee ami a prison on each hand : I iaw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : Л thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles O'er the far times,... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - 1846 - 334 sider
...and as he steps into the barge which waits to convey him across the encircling waters, and sees » from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of an enchanter's wand, A thousand years their cloudy wings expand." And the glories of the past, and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 sider
...completed state ; and repeat once more how truly I am ever, Your obliged And affectionate friend, BYRON. yean their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1847 - 372 sider
...long-cherished associations connected with her past history excites within him, stands, like Byron, " on the bridge of sighs, A palace and a prison on each han.l ;" 702 to mourn, perchance, over her "dead doges," her crumbling ruins, and deserted commerce.... | |
 | Angelika Corbineau-Hoffmann - 1993 - 690 sider
...ist dafür ebenso ein Mittel wie jenes Bild, das sich Childe Harold auf den ersten Blick bietet: / saw from out the wave her structures rise / As from the stroke of the Enchanter' s wand. 125 Doch der Zauberstab bringt nicht das Märchenhaft-Abweichende Venedigs zur Anschauung,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - 1994 - 884 sider
...repeat once more how truly I am ever Tour obliged and affectionate friend, BTBON. 220 Canto IV.] 221 I. I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace...expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pues, Where Venice sate m state, throned... | |
 | Andrew Rutherford - 1995 - 536 sider
...writing is enough to turn the brain of the reader or the author. The repetitions in the last stanza are I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. He meant to say, that on one hand was a palace, on the other a prison. And what think you of — And... | |
 | Paul H. Fry - 1995 - 276 sider
...appearance at the very beginning of canto 4. Samuel Rogers and Wordsworth both criticized the solecism of "I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, /A Palace and a prison on each hand" (4.1). How, they complained gleefully, can he have both buildings on both hands? No doubt the carelessly... | |
 | Manfred Pfister - 1996 - 578 sider
...for the most airy fabric, and pure invention is but the talent of a liar. Lord Byron 'A DYING GLORY' I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace...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,... | |
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