| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...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... | |
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - Industries - 1847 - 372 pages
...long-cherished associations connected with her past history excites within him, stands, like Byron, " on the bridge of sighs, A palace and a prison on each han.l ;" 702 to mourn, perchance, over her "dead doges," her crumbling ruins, and deserted commerce.... | |
| Electronic journals - 1875 - 676 pages
...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... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...unshorn: Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien. VENICE. 1 STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace...the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd... | |
| Questions and answers - 1850 - 544 pages
...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... | |
| Arts - 1875 - 398 pages
...sentimentalism of Byron." Why write so harshly of that stanza of his ? — the stanza in which he says : — " I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs — A palace and a prison on each han_d ; I s aw, from out the waves, her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand.... | |
| Angelika Corbineau-Hoffmann - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 690 pages
...ist dafür ebenso ein Mittel wie jenes Bild, das sich Childe Harold auf den ersten Blick bietet: / saw from out the wave her structures rise / As from the stroke of the Enchanter' s wand. 125 Doch der Zauberstab bringt nicht das Märchenhaft-Abweichende Venedigs zur Anschauung,... | |
| George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...repeat once more how truly I am ever Tour obliged and affectionate friend, BTBON. 220 Canto IV.] 221 hough varied with a transitory storm, More beautiful...were trampled By human passions to a human chaos, No wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject Look'd to... | |
| Paul H. Fry - Poetry - 1995 - 276 pages
...appearance at the very beginning of canto 4. Samuel Rogers and Wordsworth both criticized the solecism of "I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, /A Palace and a prison on each hand" (4.1). How, they complained gleefully, can he have both buildings on both hands? No doubt the carelessly... | |
| Andrew Rutherford - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 536 pages
...writing is enough to turn the brain of the reader or the author. The repetitions in the last stanza are I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. He meant to say, that on one hand was a palace, on the other a prison. And what think you of — And... | |
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