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
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 էջ
...enjoyment of happiness for the pursuit of power. ' " And leave us leisure to be good."— Gray THE ALPS. ABOVE me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And thron'd Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 էջ
...however, to the still more attractive scenes of Switzerland. The opening is of suitable grandeur. " But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces...show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below." On this magnificent threshold, the poet pauses, to honour the patriot field of Morat, and... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 682 էջ
...however, to the still more attractive scenes of Switzerland. The opening is of suitable grandeur. " But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces...show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below." On this magnificent threshold, the poet pauses, to honour the patriot field of Morat, and... | |
| Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 էջ
...understood these grand, these mighty regions ? What said the wandering Harold when he viewed them ? — " The Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls...show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.'' One evening, Arbridge had wandered far from his dwelling place, the little mountain cottage... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 էջ
...bounties here extend to all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though empires near them fall. l.XII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces...yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show [below. How Earth may pierce !o Heaven, yet leave vain man urn. Rut, ere these matchless heights I... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 էջ
...\Vl,osc fertile bounties here extend tu all, Süll Bringing o'er thy banks, though empires near ibem&lL But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces...throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forma and falls Tho avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appab,... | |
| John Murray - 1846 - 552 էջ
...Mortine is known, but to recover the body was considered impossible. EXCUBSIONS ABOUND CHAMOUNT. " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...their snowy scalps, ; And throned Eternity in icy hails Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The Avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that... | |
| William Lindsay Alexander - 1846 - 364 էջ
...is absorbed in the view of the mountains, — "Alps on Alps in clusters swelling!" and amid those " Palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity—" one feels as if shut in from all common-place associations and sources of pleasure, and constrained... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 էջ
...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 I All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show [below. How Earth... | |
| 1847 - 526 էջ
...Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast waJls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And thron'd eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms...show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below. BYRON'S Childe Hcrold. 3. Who first beholds the Alps, — that mighty chain Of mountains,... | |
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