| 1817 - 628 páginas
...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...And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of snows ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals,... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 618 páginas
...henceforward and for ever." — Rogers. It was such a prospect that inspired those remarkable lines of Byron : — " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of...And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The Avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! • All that expands the spirit,... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 páginas
...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...And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet... | |
| 1816 - 692 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche, the thunderbolt of snow,"— Even these, the most glorious objects... | |
| Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 330 páginas
...«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...'And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals,... | |
| Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 páginas
...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...And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalancbe — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expandi the spirit, yet... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 páginas
...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...walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And thoned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt... | |
| Thomas Raffles - 1819 - 370 páginas
...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 Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet... | |
| Robert Charles Dallas - 1820 - 622 páginas
...lakes into phosphoric seas," and with the sounds of his lyre set " the big rain dancing to the earth." Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy hallii Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that... | |
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