 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 550 sidor
...think that 1 ever could have prevailed upon myself to print such lines as he has done; for instance, ' I stood at Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.' Some person ought to write a critical review, analysing Lord Byron's language, in order to guard others... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1851 - 636 sidor
...that I ever could have prevailed upon myself to print such lines as he has done ; for instance : ' I stood at Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.' Some person ought to write a critical review analyzing Lord Byron's language, in order to guard others... | |
 | William Starbuck Mayo - 1851 - 290 sidor
...his life, and events sometime after occurred to justify the popular belief. CHAPTEE in. " I stood in Venice on the bridge of Sighs " A palace and a prison on each hand." A few words will suffice for a period of twenty years, which we must now suppose to have elapsed since... | |
 | 1851 - 658 sidor
...to him so bright as now ; the time to come appeared proportionably dark. His soul stood, as it were, on the Bridge of Sighs, " a palace and a prison on each hand :" that he had left, and this he was about to enter. The most affecting deprivation that he now suffers... | |
 | George Searle Phillips - 1852 - 314 sidor
...think I ever could have prevailed with myself to print such lines as he has done, for instance — ' I stood at Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on eacli hand.' " Some person ought to write a critical review analiaing Lord Byron's language, in order... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1852 - 490 sidor
...longcherished associations connected with her pott history excites within him, stands, like Byron, " on the bridge of sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand . ' to mourn, perchance, over her " dead doges,' her crumbling ruins, and deserted commerce What a... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 502 sidor
...knowledge of Rome and its environs than any Englishman since Gibbon.J CANTO THE FOURTH. i. I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ;' A palace and a prison on each hand: I saw from ont the wave her strnctnres rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thonsand years their... | |
 | 1866 - 760 sidor
...towers, its windows, its very bricks on the photographic canvas of Canaletti ? Who has not stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, a palace and a prison on each hand, and peered in fancy into the golden chambers of the one, fit frames for the glowing glories of art... | |
 | Edward Young - 1854 - 116 sidor
...the subject of a separate Lecture. Every one knows those lines of the first poet of our own times, " I stood at Venice on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand." It should need no proof that a palace should be a palace, and a prison a prison. The greatest uninspired... | |
 | Henry Maney - 1854 - 354 sidor
...time we once more emerged into the light of day, when mounting a flight of stone steps " We stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on either hand." This was our last sight-seeing expedition in Venice, and soon after we took a gondola... | |
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