...friend, BYHON. CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE. CANTO THE FOURTH. I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ;1 A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out...subject land Look'd to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles ! TI. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean,1...

...ravish'd from the deep 1 774. Some : Namely, Venice. Says Byron — " I saw from out the wave a structure rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand :...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the wing'd lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles."...

...ravish'd from the deep ! 774. Some: Namely,- Venice. Says Byron — u I saw from out the wave a structure rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand :...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the wing'd lion's marble piles, "Where Venice sat in state, throned ou her hundred isles."...

...condition. No better description of Venice is extant than that which Byron gives, speaking as if he stood on the Bridge of Sighs : — " A palace and a prison...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the winged Leoni marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles."...

...arch. " The Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structure rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand. A...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles Where Tenice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles."...

...the close will be found in the opening stanzas of the fourth Canto of " Childe Harold :"— " I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a...rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand." Lastly, we have the passage in the " Doge of Venice :" — " As yet 'tis but a chaos Of darkly-brooding...

...nations : all were his ! He counted them at break of day ; And, when the sun set, where were the}' ? " " A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around...subject land Look'd to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned ca her hundred isles ! " He beheld the Eterual City, the " Childless...

...In the first stanza of the fourth canto of CJiilde Harold we have the well-known lines- — I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison...the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of an enchanter's wand. In one of his letters Lord Byron tells us of his fondness for the above novel....

...poet of the nineteenth century in the well-known exquisite lines of his "Childe Harold:"— " I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a...the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of an enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles...

...obnoxious to this proof, the reader is left to j udge for himself. THE BRAVO. CHAPTER I. " I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the winged lions' marble piles, Where Venice sat in state, throned on her hundred isles."...