| 1817 - 628 Seiten
...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...And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of snows ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals,... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 618 Seiten
...considered impossible. EXCURSIONS ABOUND CHAMOUNY. " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy...And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The Avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals,... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 Seiten
...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...And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet... | |
| 1818 - 764 Seiten
...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 eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche, the thunderbolt of snow,"— Even these, the most glorious objects... | |
| Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 330 Seiten
...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...'And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals,... | |
| Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 Seiten
...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...And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalancbe — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expandi the spirit, yet... | |
| Thomas Raffles - 1819 - 370 Seiten
...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 Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet... | |
| Robert Charles Dallas - 1820 - 622 Seiten
...of his lyre set " the big rain dancing to the earth." Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy hallii Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 Seiten
...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 snowy...And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 Seiten
...banks, though empires near them f LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy...And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals,... | |
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