 The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ;...  Sea Song and River Rhyme from Chaucer to Tennyson - Page 225by Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1887 - 324 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Italy - 1857 - 376 pages
...Vache, Fall of Arpenaz, &c., are rills in comparative appearance :" — " The roar of waters I — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters I rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl... | |
 | 1859 - 690 pages
...a description than strictly belong to it as such. To take a familiar passage in illustration : — The roar of waters ! from the headlong height Velino...from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jot That gird the gulph around, in pitiless horror set. And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again... | |
 | Merchant - Europe - 1859 - 368 pages
...artificial, their channels having been changed to secure the lands lying above them. FALLS OP VELINO. 145 " The roar of waters ! from the headlong height ' Velino,'...sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this, Their Phlgethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around in pitiless horror set." We could... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 364 pages
...Xature's baptism, — 'tis to him ye must Pay orisons for this suspension of disgust. LXVII. LXIX. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height...precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light 2 L The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 362 pages
...headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light 2 L LXIX. The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And hoil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon,... | |
 | Merchant - Europe - 1859 - 368 pages
...artificial, their channels having been changed to. secure the lands lying above them. FALLS OF VELINO. 145 " The roar of waters ! from the headlong height ' Velino,'...cleaves the wave-worn precipice. The fall of waters 1 rapid as the light, The flashing mass foams, shaking the abyss, The hell of waters ! where they howl... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1860 - 252 pages
...clean With Nature's haptism, — : 'tis to him ye must Pay orisons for this suspension of disgust. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height...rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the ahyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And hoil in endless torture ; while the sweat... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 pages
...him ye must Pay orisons for this suspension of disgust. LXIX. The roar of waters ! from the heading height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The...the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and him, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their... | |
 | Octavian Blewitt - 1861 - 552 pages
...Staubach, Reichenbach, Pisse Vache, Fall of Arpenaz, &c., are rills in comparative appearance :" — " The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height...cleaves the wave-worn precipice; The fall of waters I rapid as the light. The Hashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters I where they howl... | |
 | John Mason Neale - 1861 - 238 pages
...sometimes arching above my head ; and thought how utterly untrue those lines of Byron's are about— The hell of waters! where they howl and hiss. And boil in endless torture: where the sweat Of their great agony is wrung from this Th;ir Phlegethon,— and how much more naturally... | |
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