 | John Clark Ferguson - 1856 - 36 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 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... | |
 | Louis Nell - 1856
...these self same stores of the world, which made Venice what she was. "her daughters, had their doweii From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling shower! In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increased."... | |
 | Baron George Gordon Byron Byron - Belgium - 1856 - 339 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 From spoils of nations, and the exhanstless East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her... | |
 | James Aitken Wylie - 1856 - 455 pages
...seas, and meditate a little on the great moral of Venice. We shall let the poet state the case : — " 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... | |
 | Baron George Gordon Byron Byron - 1857 - 576 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. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are... | |
 | William Stones (travel writer.) - 1858
...magnitude ; and its characteristic magnificence and pride are notorious. " 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 BUCENTAUR. In the Bucentaur, the state galley of the Republic,... | |
 | Baron George Gordon Byron Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Moore - Literary Criticism - 1859 - 827 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...her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increaied. Ш. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, ' And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her... | |
 | Baron George Gordon Byron Byron - 1859 - 329 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...East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers, lu purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increased. IIl.... | |
 | Baron George Gordon Byron Byron - Literary Criticism - 1859 - 329 pages
...: And such she was ; — her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustlcss East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monan'hs partook, and decm'd their dignity increased. III. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And... | |
 | William King Tweedie - History - 1859
...Babylon. " Her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations ; and the eshaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed ; and of her feasts Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increas'd." One main source of all this wealth and... | |
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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... 
