 | English literature - 1842 - 592 pages
...hand of Nature has supplied for the contemplation of man. *' All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to 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 dark... | |
 | 1817 - 628 pages
...forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of snows ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave *ain nun below.' Tlit' descriptive power displayed in the next specimen we shall transcribe, is of... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Switzerland - 1811 - 618 pages
...forms and falls The Avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How earth...of adventures, the plans for to day or to-morrow, 'he weather, not here the commonplace substitute for having nothing else to say, but the most important... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below." From thence he journeys on to Switzerland, not passing, without remark, the dwelling places of Voltaire,... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - Europe - 1818 - 330 pages
...where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits as to show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below Your's, &c. LETTER XX. Lausanne* MY DEAR i WE were, happily, much favoured by the weather during our... | |
 | 1818 - 896 pages
...avalanche— the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather urouud these buramits, as to show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below/ p. 36. At length he arrives on the borders of Lake Leman, where his misanthropical genius, taking advantage... | |
 | Robert Charles Dallas - 1820 - 622 pages
...forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below. I shall only say that in contemplating 1 was still more sensible of an " expansion of spirit" than... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 292 pages
...forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below, LXIII. But ere these matchless heights I dare to scan, There is a spot should not be pass'd in vain,... | |
 | John Watkins - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below !" An Alpine tempest is pictured with a power which nothing short of personal observation could have... | |
 | John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pages
...forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below !" An Alpine tempest is pictured with a power which nothing short of personal observation could have... | |
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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,... 
