| American Institute of Instruction - 1832 - 330 σελίδες
...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 - 328 σελίδες
...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... | |
| James Bell - 1832 - 622 σελίδες
...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... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 362 σελίδες
...fertile bounties here 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...and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! Ail that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show [below. How Earth... | |
| Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 764 σελίδες
...in whispers sage and slow. Snowdon ! mark, 'tis magie's hour ; Now the mutter'd spell has power ; * Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...throned eternity in icy halls, Of cold sublimity.'' CHILD HAROLD. CANT. L f Gray seems to have becn much pleased with these lines. Speaking of the advantages... | |
| 1834 - 506 σελίδες
...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... | |
| Thomas Dyke (the younger.) - 1834 - 380 σελίδες
...APPENDIX. Swiss Air 153 VOL. II. PART III. SWITZERLAND. CHAPTER I. CANTONS OF BASLE AND ARGOVIE. " The Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in the clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy walls Of cold sublimity." EVRON. BASLE (Basil,... | |
| John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 σελίδες
...fertile bounties here extend to all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though empires near them fall. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces...clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy hal]s Of cold sublimity, where forms akd falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that... | |
| John Pierpont - 1835 - 292 σελίδες
...left in regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, "The palaces of nature, whose -rest walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps,...forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of SDOW," — even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were regarded by... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1835 - 158 σελίδες
...foeman's eye — His volley speeds, and Albert — Albert — - falls ! the dear old father bleeds f 340. Above me are the Alps, the palaces of Nature, whose vast, walls have pinnacled in clouds their snowyscalps, and throned Eternity in icy halls of cold sublimity,, where forms and falls the avalanche... | |
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