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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... "
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: With ... Notes and a Life of the Author - Page 44
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1867
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 3

1818 - 806 pages
...excited by the decaying splendour, unexpected desertedness, and ancient glories of this romantic city. 1. I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs-; A palace...subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Wljere Venice sate in state, Jhron'd pn her hundred isles ! 2. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean....
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

1818 - 598 pages
...universe — I. ' I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : 1 saw from out the wave her structures rise As from...subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles f The former greatness of this queen of commerce...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

1818 - 606 pages
...universe — I. 4 1 stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : 1 saw from out the wave her structures rise As from...subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles V The former greatness of this queen of commerce...
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The works of ... lord Byron, Volumes 7-8

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...PILGRIMAGE. CANTO IV. I. J. STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; * A palace and a prison on each hnnd: I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from...subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles! II. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean,...
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The works, of ... lord Byron, Volume 7

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pages
...STOOD is VENICE , on the Bridge of Sighs; i A palace and a prison on each hand : 1 saw from out tbe wave her structures rise . As from the stroke of the...subject land Look'd to the winged LION'S marble piles, Where VENICE sate in state , thron'd on her hundred isles! It She looks a sea Cybele , fresh from ocean...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 19

1819 - 630 pages
...immediate object of the present article. The poem opens in Venice, once the mart of the universe — I. ' I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs A palace...the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wing* expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral, & philosophical ...

1834 - 614 pages
...STOOD at Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; 1 saw from out the waves her structures rise, As from the stroke of the enchanter's...times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged lions' marble piles, Where Venice sate in state throned on her hundred isles ! She looks a sea Cybele...
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Hermes; oder kritisches Jahrbuch der Literatur, Volumes 1-2

1819 - 884 pages
...palace and a prison on each hand: I sav/ from out the wave her structures rise As from tie stroke of die enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings...subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles , Where Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles!" „Sie ehemalige ©r5fie ber A&nigin bee...
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Giovanni Sbogarro: A Venetian Tale. [Taken from the French], Volume 2

Peter Irving - 1820 - 308 pages
...GlLBERT'l.FriNGSt'dN THOMPSON, . Clerk ofjlve Seathern District of New- York. GIOVANNI SBOGARRO. CHAPTER I. 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. HAKOLB. ONE of the greatest .oraaments of Venice, is the island dfS«n .Giorgio...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

1821 - 444 pages
...by the decaying splendour, unexpected desertedness, and antient glories of this romantic city : — 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 Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles!...
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