 | 1817 - 628 pagini
...power, and beauty hev describes. The following stanza presents a striking instance. 1 But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of snows ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How earth... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 618 pagini
...for ever." — Rogers. It was such a prospect that inspired those remarkable lines of Byron : — " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...thunderbolt of snow ! • All that expands the spirit, yet appals. Gather around these summits, as to show _ How earth may soar to heaven, yet leave vain man... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pagini
...extend to all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. " Biit these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man... | |
 | 1816 - 692 pagini
...o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. A race of faces happy as the scene, " But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls And tbrorifed Eternity in icy_ halls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps. The avalanche—the... | |
 | 1818 - 764 pagini
...thi-m by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, •• The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Hare pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps And throned...falls The avalanche, the thunderbolt of snow,"— Even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were regarded by the ancients... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 330 pagini
...«fcord Byron occur to me as admirably descriptive of the scenes in which it leaves me : " ———— Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pagini
...lines of Lord Byron occur to me as admirably descriptive of the scenes in which it leaves me : " • Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalancbe — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expandi the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these... | |
 | 1818 - 782 pagini
...few detached lines is all that is left in regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, " The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...falls The avalanche, the thunderbolt of snow,"— . Even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were regarded by the ancients... | |
 | 1818 - 896 pagini
...Have pinnacled in donde their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy hall» Of cold snbliraity, where forms and falls The avalanche— the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather urouud these buramits, as to show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1819 - 370 pagini
...scenes in •which it leaves me : " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose, vast wall) Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits as to shew How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below."... | |
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Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit,... 
