 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 pages
...strains would his muse have sung, when, in praise of Terni, he describes in those beautiful lines, how " An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge Like Hope upon a deathbed, and unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant... | |
 | 1833 - 372 pages
...rivers which flow gushingly With many windings through the vale: — Look back ! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity As if to sweep down all things in...infernal surge — Like Hope upon a death-bed ; and, unworn, Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene [ts brilliant... | |
 | Adam Fergusson - 1833 - 404 pages
...strains would his muse have sung, when, in praise of Terni, he describes in those beautiful lines, how " An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge Like Hope upon a deathbed, and unworn K 146 A CANADIAN SPRING DAY. The title of horse-shoe is becoming every year less appropriate,... | |
 | William Brockedon - 1834 - 380 pages
...rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale : — Look back ! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in...the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1834 - 656 pages
...rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale : — look back ! lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in...sits,* amidst the infernal surge, Like hope upon a death-betl, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene... | |
 | 1835 - 404 pages
...associated as it is with one of the most beautiful exhibitions of nature or of poetry ! "Lol where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in...the infernal surge, Like hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett, William Beattie - 1836 - 374 pages
...chasms a fearful vent To the broad column that rolls on." . . . . " Look back ! • Lo, where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in...Charming the eye with dread — a matchless cataract !" From 1757, down to the period of its destruction in 1799, the Bridge of Schaffhausen was justly... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...which flow gushingly, [back ! With many windings, through the vale : — Look » Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in...Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract, (J) Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett, William Beattie - 1836 - 368 pages
...in chasms a fearful vent To the broad column that rolls on." .... " Look back ! Lo, where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread—a matchless cataract!" From 1757, down to the period of its destruction in 1799, the Bridge... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 352 pages
...rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale : — Look hack ! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in...Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract, l Lxx1L Horrihly heautiful ! hut on the verge, From side to side, heneath the glittering morn, An Iris... | |
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Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a deathbed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its... 
