 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...And who commanded (and the silence cnme). Here let the billows sullen, and have rest? Ye Icc-fiille! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain— Torrents, nicihinks. that heard a mighty Voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents!... | |
 | John William Lester - 1848 - 112 pages
...for ever ? \Vho gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam? And who commanded—...voice, And stopped at once, amid their maddest plunge I Motionless torrents! Silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven, Beneath the... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 pages
...forever ? Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? And who commanded,...— " Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest ?" Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...line which expresses the optical appearance, rather than the philosophical truth. " Ye ice-falls 1 ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty Voice, And stupp'd at once amid their maddest plunge! — Motionless torrents ! Silent cataracts ! Who made you... | |
 | 1848 - 310 pages
...same forever? Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? — And who commanded — and the silence came, " Here shall the billows stiffen and have rest'! " Ye ice-falls ! ye that from your dizzy heights Adown enormous... | |
 | 1849 - 612 pages
...return home, I was delighted to find the forgotten idea expressed in their own glorious language : ' Ye ice-falls, ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts !'* O'er the savage sea The glassy ocean of the mountain ice, We skim its rugged breakers, which put... | |
 | 1849 - 586 pages
...for ever ? Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? And who commanded...Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest" ? Ye ice falls ! ye that from the mountain brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain, Torrents, methinks,... | |
 | David Purdie Thomson - 1849 - 516 pages
...to sudden fracture. 230. Mist-cap of the iceberg. 240. Physical properties of ice. " Ye icy-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious... | |
 | 1849 - 604 pages
...return home, I was deb'gbted to find the forgotten idea expressed in their own glorious language : ' Ye ice-falls, ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, inethinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents... | |
 | 1849 - 508 pages
...the description of glaciers in general, came home forcibly to the present one : — " Ye ice falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain ; Torrents, methinks, thai heard a mighty voice, And slopped at once, amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent... | |
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Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam? And who commanded (and the silence came), Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest? 
