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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 : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er... "
The poetical works of lord Byron. Illustr. ed - Page 405
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879
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The London University Magazine, Volume 1

English literature - 1842 - 416 pages
...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, and a dying glory smiles O'er the far times," &c. " O'er the far times !" — what an unceremonious dismissal of the metaphor of the "cloudy wings"...
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Titian: A Romance of Venice

Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1843 - 856 pages
...RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1813. TITIAN. CHAPTER I. D'ALVAINE'S TRIUMPH IN THE BUCENTAUR. A dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many...Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles. BYRON. THE Emperor Maximilian was unable to carry on, in person, the war he had successfully commenced...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors

John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, thron'd on her hundred Isles She...
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The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 pages
...wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate...state, throned on her hundred isles ! n. She looks a sea-Cybele, fresh from ocean, (') Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic...
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George Selwyn and His Contemporaries: With Memoirs and Notes, Volume 3

John Heneage Jesse - Politicians - 1844 - 414 pages
...virus of hell ! I do not wonder that Howard of Bedford, the jail-man,* who is just gone from hence, A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around...Looked to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles. * Howard, " the jail-man," it is almost needless to remark,...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors : to ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, thron'd on her hundred Isles She...
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The Modern Poetical Speaker; Or, a Collection of Pieces Adapted for ...

Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors. To ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, thron'd on her hundred Isles She...
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A Transatlantic Tour: Comprising Travels in Great Britain, France, Holland ...

William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
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The Works of Lord Byron, Including the Suppressed Poems: Also a Sketch of ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : Goth, and Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles!...
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