 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 398George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1842 - 542 էջ
...Saxe-Cohurg, the father nf the present king of the Belgians. IDA OF ZERNDORF : A. SKETCH Of THE ALPS. -Ahove me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast...walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps. And shrouded eternity in icy halls Of cold suhlimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderholt... | |
 | Richard Brown (architect.) - 1841 - 618 էջ
...'CüTTAii>:. SW Д SS ШТТАОЕ, SECTION AN В 3» ETAЗ LS , PLATES XXV.— XXVI. A SWISS COTTAGE. • " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature — whose...show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below." BYBON'S Childe Harold, Canto iii. THE annexed design in the style of the cottages in Switzerland,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 էջ
...fortifications of (Gibraltar and Malta, it did not much strike by comparison ; but the situation is commandBut these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of...yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show [below. riow Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man LXIII. But, ere these matchless heights... | |
 | John Barrow - 1841 - 404 էջ
...the varied and manifold scenes which the hand of Nature has supplied for the contemplation of man. " All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around...show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below." A succession of peaked rocks, rising one above another as far as the eye can reach, whose... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 էջ
...fall. LXIL But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Нате pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show [below. How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man Lxm. But ere these matchless heights I dare... | |
 | John Murray - 1842 - 482 էջ
...for ever.*' — Rogers* It was such a prospect that inspired those remarkable lines of Byron : — " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Kternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The Avalanche — the thunderbolt of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 էջ
...Empires near them fall. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast waUs Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below. But ere these matchless heights I dare to scan, There is a spot should not be pass'd in... | |
 | John Price Durbin - 1844 - 338 էջ
...RETURN. which Moses spake when he said, " The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the great deep." " The Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast Walls...show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below." My musings were cut short by the guide announcing that it was time for us to return. This... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - 1845 - 408 էջ
...now resting, MONT BLANC, the " Monarch of mountains," stood forth in perfect distinctness to the eye. "Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose...show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below." The narrow strip of valley appeared completely enclosed and hemmed in by the numerous snowy... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1845 - 606 էջ
...in assigning the honour of that distinction to Manfred. Here is a specimen of downright bombast. " Above me are the Alps The palaces of nature, whose...throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forme and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow !" Canto IIl. 63. Another instance of the... | |
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