 | Catherine Mary Phillimore - 1874 - 156 pagina’s
...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 Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers ; In purple was she robed, and of her feast. Monarchs partook, and deem'd their... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pagina’s
...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 Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their... | |
 | Osmond Tiffany - 1875 - 784 pagina’s
...Naples, Venice, or other sea-side cities of modern times, would have been but a suburb to Babylon. " 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 feasts Monarchs... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1876 - 560 pagina’s
...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 Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1876 - 562 pagina’s
...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 PourM in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs... | |
 | James De Mille - 1877 - 338 pagina’s
...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 showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1877 - 234 pagina’s
...airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers : And such she was ; 5 — 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... | |
 | William Robertson (of Rochdale.) - 1877 - 568 pagina’s
...Carthage, the city of Genoa, and the city of Venice. The poet says of the people of Venice : — ' Her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers.' But what are the lines with which he concludes 1... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1878 - 236 pagina’s
...republic, when she claimed to be — " 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 showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879 - 290 pagina’s
...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 Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Mouarchs partook, and deem'd their... | |
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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 Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling... 
