 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,...  The poetical works of lord Byron. Illustr. ed - Էջ 396George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1837
...rough and narrow paih, for we were now coming where nature displays some of her wildest scenes : ' Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche, the ihunder-boh of snow! All that expands the spirit yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1837
...English language which conveys better the idea of splendour; or I should use it. Before, beside, behind me are — " The Alps The palaces of Nature, whose...throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity." As the eye looks first into the depths of the glen some six thousand feet below, and then the sight,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837
...throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold suhlimity, where forms and falls The avalanehe — the thunderholt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals,...show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man helow. 1 [On taking Hockheim, the Austrians, in one part of the engagement, got to the hrow of... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1837
...displays some of her wildest scenes : • 'Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walla Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche, the thunder-boll of snow! All that expands the spirit yet appui*, Gather around those summits, as to show... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - 1838 - 288 էջ
...rough and narrow path, for we were now coming where nature displays some of her wildest scenes : - " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below." The village of Chamouni is situated in the middle of the valley of the same name, which... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1838 - 367 էջ
...Mortine is known, but to recover the body was considered impossible. EXCURSIONS AROUND CI-IAMOUNY. " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, wlîcre forms and falls The Avalanche— the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet... | |
 | 1838
...thousand other voices " warbling to the silver strings" of nature, were all unsung. And even in regard to the Alps, " The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls...clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy balls Of cold sublimity, where forma and falls The avalanche — the thunder-bolt of snow," — even... | |
 | John Murray - 1838
...: — " Abore me are the Alps, The palace« of Nature, whose vast wall« Have pinnacled in cloud« their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls...forms and falls The Avalanche — the thunderbolt of enow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How earth may... | |
 | William Fullerton Cumming - 1839
...being quite inadequate ; or it must be a genius • like Byron's that succeeds in the attempt. — " Above me are the Alps, The Palaces of Nature, whose...spirit yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to shew How earth may pierce to Heaven, and leave Vain man below." The eye embraces a horizon of about... | |
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