 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 her lap all gems in sparkling...  Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review - Page 201857Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1821 - 444 pages
...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 her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased. In... | |
 | George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...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 her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs paitook, and deemed their dignity mcreased. In Venice... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 290 pages
...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 her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased. K 3... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1847 - 464 pages
...traffic. What were the results ? We are told of Venice — " Her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations; and the exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers." And Shakespeare says : " Since that the trade and profit of the city Consisteth of all nations." "... | |
 | James Henry - 1853 - 616 pages
...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 her lap all gems in sparkling showers: In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased;" the... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1854 - 596 pages
...noble lady of that queenly city, of which Byron says, " Her daughters had their 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 partook and deemed their dignity increased ! " Childe... | |
 | John Clark Ferguson - 1856 - 90 pages
...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 her lap all gems in sparkling showers, In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increased. l5... | |
 | James Aitken Wylie - 1856 - 498 pages
...of Venice. We shall let the poet state the case : — " Her daughters had their 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 partook, and deem'd their dignity increased." But... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1857 - 820 pages
...round the Cape of Good Hope, was opened by tliu Portuguese, at the close of the fifteenth century. Poetry has said of Venice : — " Her daughters had...people, founded flourishing colonies in the Black Sea. Tie Crimea, since contested by great empires, was a Genoese province, and monuments of their occupation... | |
 | William Stones (travel writer.) - 1858 - 268 pages
...other states of much greater magnitude ; and its characteristic magnificence and pride are notorious. " The exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers; In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased." THE... | |
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