 ... mine, The aim of their existence was not mine ; My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers, Made me a stranger; though I wore the form, I had no sympathy with breathing flesh, Nor midst the creatures of clay that girded me Was there but one who...  The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature - Page 615edited by - 1817Full view - About this book
 | Charles Williams - Alps - 1854 - 662 pages
...caked over with frost or snow-drift, and breathing— '• The diffieult air of the iced-iuountain top, Where the birds dare not build, nor insect's wing Flit o'er the herbless granite." The most difficult task was the transport of the artillery and ammunition, and this was personally... | |
 | Charles Williams - Alps - 1854 - 668 pages
...chasms caked over with frost or snow-drift, and breathing — " The difficult air of the iccd-mumituin top, Where the birds dare not build, nor insect's wing Flit o'er the lierbless granite.'1 The most difficult task was the transport of the artillery and ammunition, and... | |
 | Alfred Wills - Alps - 1856 - 428 pages
....WANDERINGS \ THE HIGH ALPS. •V BY ALFRED WILLS, 07 I lit HIDDLK TEMPLE, BARBISTIX-AT-LAW. My joy W&B in the wilderness- to breathe The difficult air of...birds dare not build, nor insect's wing Flit o'er the herbkss granite. LONDON: KICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. in ©xWnatj) to M.DCCC.LVI. - LONDON:... | |
 | Society of Friends - 1856 - 590 pages
...jealous. Oil the morning in which the tragical occurence had taken place, an Alpine hunter " Whoso joy was in the wilderness — to breathe The difficult air of the iced mountain's to]i," had been watching near an eagle's seat, in the hope of shooting the bird upon her return to... | |
 | Septimus Sears - 1859 - 964 pages
...On the morning in which this tragical occurrence had taken place, an Alpine hunter " Whose joy wan in the wilderness — to breathe The difficult air of the iced mountain's top." had been watching near an eagle's seat in the hope of shooting the bird upon her return to her nest.... | |
 | Alfred Wills - Alps - 1858 - 458 pages
..... : I 60002401 4M A1IONG THE HIGH ALPS. xx ALFRED WILLS, OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BA.HUISTEB-AT-LAW. My joy was in the wilderness, to breathe The difficult...nor insect's wing Flit o'er the herbless granite. Ztconts SEWtum, REVISED, WITH ADDITIONS. LONDON : RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. in ©tiDinancjj... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pages
...breathing flesh, Nor midst the creatures of elay that girded me Was there but one who but of her anon. I said, with men, and with the thoughts of men, I...mountain's top, 'Where the birds dare not build, nor inseet's wing Flit o'er the herbless granite ; or to plunge Into the torrent, and to roll along On... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - Eastern question (Balkan). - 1859 - 434 pages
...surveying the varicd and active life of this eloquent and aged philosopher, we find a youth whose ioy was in the wilderness, to breathe The difficult air...birds dare not build, nor insect's wing Flit o'er the hcrblem granite; or to plunge Into the torrent, and to roll along On the swift whirl of the new breaking... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1859 - 802 pages
...of Europe, and behold a scene which but few eyes ever have, or ever will, rest upon. We should — " breathe The difficult air of the iced mountain's top,...nor insect's wing Flit o'er the herbless granite." "We should, in fact, have i-eached the climax of the sublime in natural scenery. *When I Yisited this... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 pages
...breathing flesh, Nor midst the creatures of clay that girded me Was there but one who but of her anon. I said, with men, and with the thoughts of men I held but slight communion ; but, instead, My joy wasin the wilderness, to breathe The difficult air of the iced mountain's top, Where the birds dare... | |
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