 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 290 pages
...springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fail . LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alp.', The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain Man below. LXIII. But ere these matchless heights I dare... | |
 | Benjamin Bailey - 1831 - 138 pages
...under the poet's description of this river among the mountains of Switzerland. I could not say — " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps." But we often found ourselves in spots upon the banks of this splendid stream, which is thus beautifully... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...extend to all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though empires near them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose...appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below. LXII1. Bnt ere these matchless heights 1 dare... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...extend to all, Still springing o'er thy hanks, though empires near them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose...appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below. , LXIII. But ere these matchless heights I dare... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1832 - 278 pages
...remarkably snug" until the affair had blown over. CHAPTER X. And now I go, but go alone. — SCOTT. Above me are the Alps, ., The palaces of nature, whose...their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halls, &c. — BYEOX. " ARE you sure all my things are on board, Slowand-Easy ?" asked Mr. Green, as he stood... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1832 - 330 pages
...rich, luxuriant mould : the rocky hill, shorn of its verdant glories ; and the towering mountains, " Whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy...And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity" — are the displays of that power, whose agents have broken down the solid barriers of earth, and... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1832 - 330 pages
...rich, luxuriant mould ; the rocky hill, shorn of its verdant glories ; and the towering mountains, " Whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy...And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity" — are the displays of that power, whose agents have broken down the solid barriers of earlIi, and... | |
 | James Bell - 1832 - 622 pages
...heights towards the lower countries of Europe. These are, to use the words of a late illustrious poet, ' The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And tbroned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1832 - 328 pages
...rich, luxuriant mould ; the rocky hill, shorn of its verdant glories ; and the towering mountains, •' Whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halts Of cold sublimity"— are the displays of that power, whose agents have broken down the solid... | |
 | William Brockedon - 1833 - 438 pages
...genius could enrich them, in his " Manfred," and in the third canto of " Childe Harold. " " Above us are the Alps — The palaces of Nature, whose vast...appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below !" Chamouni, from the immense number of its English... | |
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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,... 
