 | British Columbia. Superintendent of Education - 1899 - 756 pages
..."Earth has not anything to show more fair." 2. Explain the references in the following : — (a.) " When many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles." (b.) " Ours is a trophy which will not decay With the Rialto ; ^hi/lock and tlie Moor, And Pierre,... | |
 | England - 1818 - 772 pages
...by the decaying splendour, unexpected desertedness, and ancient glories of this romantic city. .1I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace...winged Lion's marble piles. Where Venice sate in state, thron 'd on her hundred isles ! 8. She look« a sea Cybele, fVesh from ocean, Buing with her tiara... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 606 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...winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles Y The former greatness of this queen of commerce is described and mingled... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 622 pages
...Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : 1 saw from out the wave her structures riseAs from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand...wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er ihe far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate... | |
 | 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 and a prison on each hand : I taw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years... | |
 | 1818 - 598 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 and a prison on each hand : 1 saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Italy - 1818 - 296 pages
...you., the moral of his strain .' NOTES. NOTES TO CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE, CANTO IV. Stanza T. / stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand. THE communication between the Ducal palace and the prisons of Venice is by a gloomy bridge, or covered... | |
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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... 
