 | Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1838 - 194 pages
...right, and Sviare, to stop the boat by turning the flat part of the oar against the current. FROM GOTHE. LET me this gondola boat compare to the slumberous...Onward with never a care, coffin and cradle between. A DREAM IN A GONDOLA. I HAD a dream of waters : I was borne Fast down the slimy tide Of eldest Nile,... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1838 - 192 pages
...right, and Sciare, to stop the boat by turning the flat part of the oar against the current. FROM GOTHE. LET me this gondola boat compare to the slumberous...Onward with never a care, coffin and cradle between. A DREAM IN A GONDOLA. I HAD a dream of waters : I was borne Fast down the slimy tide Of eldest Nile,... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - English poetry - 1844 - 228 pages
...gondoliers, indicating the direction in which they are rowing. Sciare is to stop the boat. FROM GOTHE. LET me this gondola boat compare to the slumberous...spacious bier liken the cover demure ; Thus on the Great Canal through life we are swaying and swimming Onward with never a care, coffin and cradle between.... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - Cities and towns - 1876 - 560 pages
...apparent motion, you float off into the green water. " Let me this gondola boat compare to a slumbrous cradle, And to a spacious bier liken the cover demure...Onward with never a care, coffin and cradle between. " Monckton Milnes, from Goethe. It is perhaps best, and no mere romantic idea, to enter Venice for... | |
 | Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - Poetry, English - 1876 - 350 pages
...gondoliers, indicating the direction in which they are rowing. Sciare is to stop the boat. FROM G5THE. LET me this gondola boat compare to the slumberous...spacious bier liken the cover demure ; Thus on the Great Canal through life we are swaying and swimming Onward with never a care, coffin and cradle between.... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - Cities and towns - 1884 - 344 pages
...apparent motion, you float off into the green water. 1 Let me this gondola boat compare to a slumbrous cradle, And to a spacious bier liken the cover demure...Onward with never a care, coffin and cradle between.' Monckton Millies, from Goethe. 'How light we move, how softly ! Ah, Were life but as the gondola !... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - Venice (Italy) - 1884 - 200 pages
...apparent motion, you float off into the green water. ' Let me this gondola boat compare to a slumbrous cradle, And to a spacious bier liken the cover demure...Onward with never a care, coffin and cradle between.' Monckton Milnes,from Goethe. 'How light we move, how softly ! Ah, Were life but as the gondola !'—Clouglt.... | |
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... of the Grand Canal lapping against the marble steps, and a number of gondolas, like a row of black hearses, drawn up against them. Into one of these you step, and noiselessly, ghastlily, without apparent motion, you float off into the green water.... 