...described with great inequality ; of which the first stanza may be cited as an average specimen : — " I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs — A palace...rise, As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand." Then mark the maze of metaphor which follows. " A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me,...

...delight and admiration!* But alas ! I have had that further acquaintance so fatal to most beauties. * I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace...structures rise, As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : Venice is an exquisite courtezan. Whilst you gaze upon those beauties which first present themselves,...

...the Bridge of Sighi ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I «a«r from out the ware her structure! rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand :...years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glorj smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged llon'i marble piles....

...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,...

...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...

...Ponte, brought the whole edifice into its present forni, so that, on his visit in 1817, the poet " Stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand." Childe Harold, canto iv. 1. Cf. Raskin's Stones of Venice, London, 1853, vol. ii. pp. 302-4. WILLIAM...

...enchanter." In the 1st stanza of the 4th canto of Childe Harold we have the well known lines — •' I stood in Venice on the bridge of sighs, A palace...structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand. In one of bis letters Lord Byron tells us of his fondness for the above novel. Again in Kirk White's...

...Harold we have the well known lines — " I stood in Venice on the bridge of sighs, A palace and u prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her...rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand." In one of his letters Lord Byron tells us of his fondness for the above novel. Again in Kirke White's...

...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...

...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...the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy «rings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiloi O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd...