 | 1817 - 628 страници
...stanza presents a striking instance. 1 But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy...forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of snows ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How earth... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 618 страници
...considered impossible. EXCURSIONS ABOUND CHAMOUNY. " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy...of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.*'... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 страници
...banks, though Empires near them fall. " Biit these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls . ., Have pinnacled in clouds their...of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below."... | |
 | 1818 - 764 страници
...thi-m by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, •• The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Hare pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps And throned...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... | |
 | 1818 - 782 страници
...all that is left in regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, " The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy...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... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 страници
...descriptive of the scenes in which it leaves me : " • Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalancbe — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expandi the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 330 страници
...of the scenes in which it leaves me : " ———— Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy...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... | |
 | 1818 - 896 страници
...Have pinnacled in donde their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy hall» Of cold snbliraity, where forms and falls The avalanche— the thunderbolt...of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather urouud these buramits, as to show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below/... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1819 - 370 страници
...scenes in •which it leaves me : " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose, vast wall) Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits as to shew How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below." Your's,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 страници
...Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And thoned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms...of snow! All that expands the spirit , yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show IIowEarlh may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below. LXIIL... | |
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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,... 
