 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1837 - 716 pages
...conveys better the idea of splendour; or I should use it. Before, beside, behind me are — " The Alps The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...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,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1837 - 580 pages
...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1837 - 578 pages
...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 eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forma and falls The avalanche, the thunder-bolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit yet appals, Gather... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...ours by the glory ofal as illustrious Bard,— wandering by the valley of swee waters, and beneath "The palaces of Nature. whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps," he led for a while his lonely musings (0\er Leman?i consecrated Lake, living not in himself, but as... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...by the glory of an as illustrious Bard, — wandering by the valley of sweet waters, and beneath u The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps,*1 he led for a while his lonely musings over Leman's consecrated Lake, living not in himself,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Alps, French (France) - 1838 - 446 pages
...recover the body was considered impossible. EXCURSIONS AROUND CI-IAMOUNY. " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...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... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1838 - 426 pages
...voices " warbling to the silver strings" of nature, were all wwsung. And even in regard to the Alps, " The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy balls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunder-bolt of snow," — even... | |
 | John Murray - 1838 - 452 pages
...recover the body was considered impossible. EXCURSIONS AROUND CHAMOUNY. " Above mo are the Alp.-,, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, a And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls f The Avalanche — the... | |
 | William Fullerton Cumming - Egypt - 1839 - 838 pages
...or it must be a genius • like Byron's that succeeds in the attempt. — " Above me are the Alps, The Palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...snow, — All that expands the spirit yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to shew How earth may pierce to Heaven, and leave Vain man below."... | |
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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,... 
