 | Samuel Rogers - Italy - 1890 - 328 pages
...track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the Sea, Invisible ; and from the land we went, As to a floating City — steering in, And gliding up her streets as in a dream, So smoo;hly, silently — by many a dome, Mosque-like, and many a stately portico, The statues ranged... | |
 | Joseph Hatton - Jews - 1896 - 408 pages
...track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the Sea Invisible ; and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering in And gliding up her streets as in a dream." Across the long viaduct that joins Venice to the mainland, the train glided over a world of swamp and... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1891 - 888 pages
...track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the Sea, Invisible ; and from the land we went, As to a floating City — steering...stately portico, The statues ranged along an azure sky ; By many a pile in more than Eastern pride, Of old the residence of merchant-kings ; The fronts of... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Italy - 1891 - 720 pages
...track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the sea, Invincible ; and from the land we went As to a floating city— steering...Mosque-like, and many a stately portico, The statues range along an azure sky ; By many a pile, in more than eastern pride, Of old the residence of merchant-kings... | |
 | Francis C. Turner - Art - 1891 - 484 pages
...The path lies o'er the sea, Invincible ; and from the land we went, As to a floating city—steering in, And gliding up her streets, as in a dream, So smoothly, silently—by many a dome, Mosque-like, and many a stately portico, The statues ranged along an azure... | |
 | Barbara Johnson Galpin - Europe - 1892 - 164 pages
...tract of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible ; and from the land we went, As to a floating city, steering in And gliding up her streets as in a dream, Smoothly, silently." It is impossible to give a pen picture of Venice — one can only hint at its... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - Books and reading - 1893 - 444 pages
...footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates : the path lies o'er the sea, •Invisible ; and from the laud we went As to a floating city, — steering in And...'portico, The statues ranged along an ' azure sky, — By many a pile in more than Eastern pride, Of old the ' residence of merchant-kings ; The fronts... | |
 | William Bement Lent - Europe - 1893 - 274 pages
...of the phantom-like city. Not a sound save the calls of our own or an approaching gondolier, — " We went As to a floating city, steering in, And gliding...a dome, Mosque-like, and many a stately portico." It was the Venice of poetry, song, and pictorial art. Never have we forgotten the suppressed excitement... | |
 | Mark Twain - Americans - 1870 - 620 pages
...city — steering in, ,7 And gliding up her streets, as In « dietun, l8o So smoothly, silently — bv many a dome, Mosque-like, and many a stately portico, The statues ranged along an azure sky ; By many a pile, in more than Eastern prid% Of old the residence of merchant kings ; The fronts of... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lie* o'er the sea, Invisible ; and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering...Mosque-like, and many a stately portico, The statues ranged alone an azure sky; By many a pile In more than eastern splendour, Of old the residence of merchant-kings... | |
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THERE is a glorious City in the Sea. The Sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing ; and the salt sea-weed Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the Sea,... 
