 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...familiar face, And clasp the mountain in his mind's embrace. BYRON'S Island. 35* 2. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast 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... | |
 | 1847 - 522 pages
...— '• Alps on alps in clusters a welling I " And amid thoso " Palace* of nature, whose vast walla Have pinnacled In clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity In Icy halla Of cold sublimity," one feels as if shut in from all commonplace associations and sources of... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...few detached lines is all that is left in regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, " The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...and falls The avalanche, the thunderbolt of snow;" even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were regarded by the ancients... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - France - 1848 - 400 pages
...increase of the glaciers, and on the avalanches, which show that he carefully explored "The Alps Those palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity." On the evening of the 29th of August, 1793, after toiling all day up a zigzag road, carrying their... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...volley speeds, and Albert — Albert — falls! the dear old father bleeds! 346. Above me are the Alps, the palaces of Nature, whose vast walls have pinnacled...and falls the avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! 347. Now, now, the secret I implore; out with it — speak — discover — utter ! 348. Peace ! I'd... | |
 | Belgium - 1851 - 478 pages
...all perishable objects within the cella. CORMAYOR, VALLEY OF AOSTE. ITALY. " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow '." BYKON. ENCLOSED by barriers of ice and snow, which obstruct the approach of the most adventurous... | |
 | 1849 - 354 pages
...Moses spake when he said, " Tlie Spirit of God moved upon the face of tJie great deep." " The Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and fulls The avalanche—the thunderholt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1907 - 1376 pages
...springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. LXH. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, IQT Z ) LoX ( o.WƱ ?%^zۊ 1 6 M m j3/[N ;...w ? 3. +( '&< [ 5 + ǖ ) y (k Luޑ Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below. LXHI.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1907 - 1376 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...forms and falls The Avalanche — the thunderbolt of snowl All that expands the spirit, yet appals Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1908 - 166 pages
...springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. LJX. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanrhp — t.tie t.tinnjjerhnlt of annw I All that expands the spirit,, yet, appals, Gather around... | |
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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,... 
