 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with...dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 568 pages
...majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers : 1 Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, c. iii. 7-15. And such she was ; — her daughters had their dowers...her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increased. . . 1 Lo ! where the Giant on the mountain stands, His blood-red tresses deep'ning in the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 586 pages
...Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, When Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles ! She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with...majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers: CHAP. ILj LORD BYRON. 283 A»d such she was ;— her daughters had their dower* From spoils of nations,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1908 - 166 pages
...Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles ! II. She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with...showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarch s partook, and deem'd their dignity increased. in. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1908 - 534 pages
...Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles! She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Kiting with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with...her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increased.. , l Lo ! where the Giant on the mountain stands, His blood-red tresses deep'ning in the... | |
 | Europe - 1908 - 554 pages
...Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles! She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with...dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs... | |
 | British - 1908 - 462 pages
...Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles ! She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with...dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs... | |
 | Virgil - 1908 - 764 pages
...she having first taught men to fortify cities. See Fig. 31. Byron compares Venice to Cybele : — " She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean Rising with...majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers." (Childe Harold, IV. 2.) 786. laeta deum partu : parallel to felix prole virum, 784. 788. geminas acies... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1909 - 160 pages
...to the wingM Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles ! n. 10 She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with...such she was ; — her daughters had their dowers 1s From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1909 - 160 pages
...sate in state, throned on her hundred isles ! 11. w She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Eising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with...such she was ; — her daughters had their dowers is From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers... | |
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She looks a sea 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... 
