...lately given a new fife to its glories, and sung of that fair City of the Sea thus grandly : — " I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace...structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy «rings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiloi O'er the far times,...

...same name, is built on a cluster of small islands, and, at a distance, seems to float on the sea — " From out the wave her structures rise, As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand." Canals, crossed by numerous bridges, and intersecting every part of the city, form the " water streets"...

...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...

...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...

...'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in't. 253 I stood in Venice, on the 'Bridge of Sighs'; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out of the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the Enchanter's wand. Ckilde HaTold'x Pilgrimage...

...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....

...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,...

...repeat once more how truly I am ever Tour obliged and affectionate friend, BTBON. 220 Canto IV.] 221 I. gh varied with a transitory storm, More beautiful...love and ravel, in an hour were trampled By human A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times,...

...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...

...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...