 | University of Glasgow - 1836
...his " bodily sense," when he conceived and penned those noble lines : — " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around those summits, as to show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below." All here was still,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 страници
...few detaehed 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...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow,"— even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man... | |
 | 1828 - 740 страници
...scientific projection of the shadows. Mont Blanc. — Bulcock, Strand. This is a beautiful picture of the — " palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have...throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity." It is taken from the vale of Chamounr, and executed with great accuracy and effect, by William Delamotte,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 страници
...banks, though empires near them fall. LXIÏ. Rut these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palace« of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icv halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1828 - 780 страници
...recede. A bore me at» the Alp«, Tue palace« of lulure. whose *a>l walls Нл»е pinnacled ia cloud« their snowy scalps. And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and fills The avalanche — the thunderbolt of mow \ All that eip.indi the spirit, yet appal«, Gather... | |
 | 1828 - 718 страници
...scientific projection of the shadows. Mm.1 Blanc. — Bulcock, Strand. This is a beautiful picture of the — " palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, •^'throned eternit;- in icy halls ' tubUmity." It ¡a taken from the vale of Chamouni, and executed... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 страници
...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...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... | |
 | Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 страници
...eternity, in icy halls Of cold suhlimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderholt of suow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around...How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man helow. THE ALPS AT DAY-BREAK. THE sun-heams streak the azure skies, And line with light the mountain's... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 страници
...the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walla, Have piunacled in clouds their snowy And tbroned eternity, in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderholt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show... | |
 | 1830 - 540 страници
...for doing that, which cannot be well done, without a considerable degree of minuteness and prolixity. The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow!" Above me are the Alps, Canto Hi. G3. Another instance of the... | |
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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,... 
