 | 1851
...man of lago's rank for her waiting woman I a noble lady of that queenly city, of whom Byron says, *' Her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured into her lap all gems in sparkling showers, In purple was she robed,; and of her feast - ,-.-.... | |
 | John Lalor - Business & Economics - 1852 - 328 pages
...tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers: And such she was ; her daughters had their dowers...Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increased. " In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852
...tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers; And such she was ;her daughters had their dowers...she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increaee.l. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - Business & Economics - 1852
...her " dead doges,' her crumbling ruins, and deserted commerce What a contrast with that state, when " her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Four'd in her lap all gems or sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of the feast Monarchs... | |
 | Jacob B. Wood - 1852 - 173 pages
...tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A rnler of the waters and their powers ; And such she was ; her daughters had their dowers From spoils of cations, and the exhaustless East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she... | |
 | Baron George Gordon Byron Byron - History - 1853 - 946 pages
...powers And such she was ; her daughters had their dowenr From spoils of nations, and the exhvistless A new - In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more,* And silent rows the songlcss gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling... | |
 | James Henry - Literary Criticism - 1853 - 586 pages
...she was : her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers: In purple...she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased;" the resemblance in the case of this comparison being only between... | |
 | James Henry - 1853
...tiara of proud towers At airy distance with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers: And such she was : her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers: In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English fiction - 1853 - 311 pages
...spoils of nations, and the exhanstless East Ponr'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In pnrple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increased. m. In Venice Tasso's eehoes are no more, s And silent rows the songless gondolier; Her palaces are... | |
 | James Aspinall - 1853
...she was : Her daughters had their d iwers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poui-'d in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, aud of her feast Monarohs partook, and deem'd their dignity increas'd." Florence, under the sway of... | |
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She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers : And such she was ; her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless... 
