 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...Still springing o'er thy banks, though empires near them fall. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy hal]s Of cold sublimity, where forms akd falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 158 pages
...speeds, and Albert — Albert — - falls ! the dear old father bleeds f 340. Above me are the Alps, the palaces of Nature, whose vast, walls have pinnacled in clouds their snowyscalps, and throned Eternity in icy halls of cold sublimity,, where forms and falls the avalanche... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show [below How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man LXIII.... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 278 pages
...sight? is all that is left In regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, "The palaces o( nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds...forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of suow,'1 — even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were regarded by... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett, William Beattie - Switzerland - 1836 - 368 pages
...imponente, niente di piu sentimentale che il passaggio detto del T£ce Noire! " " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits!"... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1836 - 774 pages
...slow. Snowdon ! mark, 'tis magic's hour ; Now the mutter'd spell has power ; * Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls, Have pinnacled...throned eternity in icy halls, Of cold sublimity." CHILD HAROLD. CANT. I. f Gray seems to have been much pleased with these lines. Speaking of the advantages... | |
 | Education - 1836 - 502 pages
...rich, luxuriant mould ; the rocky hill, shorn of its verdant glories ; and the towering mountains, " Whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy...throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity," — are the displays of that power whose agents have broken-down the solid barriers of earth, and scattered... | |
 | Schoolmaster - 1836 - 926 pages
...mould ; the rocky hill, shorn of its verdant glories ; and the towering mountains, " Whose vast walla Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps. And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity," — are the displays of that power whose agents have broken down the solid barriers of earth, and scattered... | |
 | American literature - 1836 - 342 pages
...in regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, " The piilaces of nature, whose vast waUs Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halls Of cald sublimity, where forms and fulls , The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow " — even these,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1837 - 594 pages
...for we were now coming where nature displays some of her wildest scenes : ' Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...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... | |
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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,... 
