 | 1857 - 922 páginas
...exact. But to the gorgeous art of Venice in her gloiy we cannot yet attain. Of Venice it is said, " In purple was she robed, and of her feast monarchs partook ;" and, accordingly, her palace-art was sumptuous and ornate. In like manner our own school of painting, under... | |
 | 1834 - 614 páginas
...she was, — her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Pouir'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers; In purple...Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased. In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling... | |
 | 1821 - 444 páginas
...Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles! 4 She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with...Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased. In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 290 páginas
...Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred Isles ! II. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, (2) Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance,...Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased. K 3 In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, (3) And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces... | |
 | 1834 - 604 páginas
...she was, — her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Pour*d in her lap all gems in sparkling showers ; In purple...Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased. In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling... | |
 | 1850 - 712 páginas
...islands were never pressed by the foot of a hostile stranger. " Her daughters had their dowers From the spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured...Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased." In the twelfth century she stood at the head of maritime nations, and furnished fleets for the crusades.... | |
 | Düsseldorf Gallery (New York, N.Y.) - 1851 - 98 páginas
...says, *' Her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured into her lap all gems in sparkling showers, In purple was...Monarchs partook and deemed their dignity increased ! How could a painter make such a woman other than magnificent ? The drawing of this picture is excellent,... | |
 | Jacob B. Wood - 1852 - 192 páginas
...she was ; — her daughters had their dowers From spoils of cations, and the exhaustless East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple...Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased." BYRON'S Childe Harold is, in fact, a perfect guide book for Switzerland and Italy ; better, indeed,... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 páginas
...she was ;—her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple...her feast Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increaee.l. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1854 - 596 páginas
...man of lago's rank for her waiting woman ! a noble lady of that queenly city, of which Byron says, " Her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations,...Monarchs partook and deemed their dignity increased ! " Childe Harold, Canto IV. 2. How could a painter make such a woman other than magnificent ? There... | |
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Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers. And such she was; her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured in... 
