 | Annie Chandy Mathew - 2004 - 288 pàgines
...dungeons on the other side. She remembered Byron's famous lines that they had studied in college. / stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on either hand. "It's just that I was a little disconcerted to find you staring at me," explained Madhavi.... | |
 | Jonah Siegel - 2005 - 308 pàgines
...published in 1818. Indeed, the most famous solecism in the poem is shaped by a characteristic confusion: I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace...expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far time, when the many subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state,... | |
 | John Gunn - 2006 - 214 pàgines
...lost in darkness, and I bless them as I leave My Sussex cattle feeding in the dew! Practice for "I" I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace...far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles! Ida had her eiderdown... | |
 | Stefan Themerson - 2006 - 212 pàgines
...a lump in her throat as she tiptoed across the floor to the door. In the hall, the gondolier under the Bridge of Sighs - a palace and a prison on each hand - was still there on the wall, but during all that time his gondola hadn't moved an inch. THIRTEEN... | |
 | Susanne Dunlap - 2007 - 353 pàgines
...dressing table, ran her fingers over the pebbly morocco, opened it reverently, and turned a few pages. I stood in Venice, on the bridge of Sighs; A palace...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! Liszt had told... | |
 | Judith Martin - 2007 - 344 pàgines
...visible mental struggles: They are trying to remember the words to the poems that brought them there. I stood in Venice, on the "Bridge of Sighs"; A Palace and a prison on each hand . . . someone will begin bravely, while actually standing on the Bridge of Straw on the riva near the... | |
 | Margaret Doody - 2007 - 386 pàgines
...recollecting in annoyance the well-known opening lines of Canto IV ofChilde Harold's Pilgrimage (I8l8), "I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs; / A palace and a prison on each hand,"4 lines which had become part of British tourists mental apparatus. "No prisoner," Ruskin proclaims,... | |
 | Manfred Pfister, Ralf Hertel - 2008 - 330 pàgines
...the Bridge of Sighs into a major attraction for tourists ever since, make this explicit. When reading 'I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, a palace and a prison 18. Tony Tanner, Venice Desired (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), p. 41. 19. Lord Byron, The Major Works,... | |
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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... 
