| Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 512 страници
...the beauty and grandeur of which it is easier to feel than to describe. • Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...may pierce to heaven, yet leave' vain man below.'' BYEON. THE GLACIERS. The Glaciers are vast accumulations of ice and snow, which occupy the elevated... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 страници
...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...Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below. I Lesson 183.] FIRST CLASS BOOK. 423 Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal face, — • The mirror,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 страници
...throned Eternity in iey halls 3f cold suhlimity, where forms and falls The avalanehe — the thunderholt of snow ! All that expands the spirit yet appals,...How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man helow. But ere these matchless heights I dare to sean, There is a spot should not he pass'd in vain,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 страници
...springingo'er thy banks, though empires near them fall. LXII. 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 avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 страници
...these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have piunacled in clonds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls...yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show [below. How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man LXIII. But ere these matchless heights {... | |
| George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 страници
...banks, though Empires near tliemfall. But these recede. Above me are the Alpi, The palaces of \ature, . [They bring water — he drinks. I lire again— from henceforth The goblet I reserve j The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, j Gather around... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 страници
...Still springing o'er thy banks, though К pires near them ft But t In ч recede. Above me are the Л I The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy »ral .And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where form« and fall The afalanche—... | |
| 1827 - 226 страници
...Ascent of Mont Blanc, in the Autumn of 1820. All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather among those summits, as to show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below. CHILDE HAROLD, Canto 3. BEVAN. CAROLINE has reached her workbox, mamma, and I have brought my portfolio... | |
| Seth William Stevenson - 1827 - 928 страници
...top of the enormous Buet. At a sight like this, well might the Muse's favoured votary exclaim — " 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." On the opposite side of Saconnex,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1827 - 888 страници
...springing o'er thy bauk\ though empires near them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their suowy scalps. And throned eternity in icy h.nl-. Of cold suMtniitv, where forms and falls The malanche... | |
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