 | 1825 - 504 pages
...exception referred to, is a figure in the highest degree picturesque ; ' lone Soracte's height' — from out the plain, Heaves like a long swept wave about to break, And [which] on the curl hangs pausing. v;v The following is another specimen of Byron's powers of description,... | |
 | Willard Phillips - 1826 - 194 pages
...dignity. The exception referred to, is a figure in the highest degree picturesque; "lone Soracte'i height" from out the plain, Heaves like a long swept wave about to break, And [which] on the curl hangs pausing. The following is another specimen of Byron's powers of description,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1827 - 630 pages
...refreshment at a wretched hotel, we hastened across a sandy, solitary waste to Nepi, and thence to Monte Ron. Just before entering the latter town, a pretty lake...hill, which — " from out the plain Heaves, like a long-swept wave about to break, And on the curl hangs pausing." So true is the profile, that it was... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 238 pages
...the clouds, and the dark mass of "the eternal city" itself mingled and was lost in the shad• — " A long swept wave about to break, And on the curl hangs pausing." ows of the campagna, the dome still seemed to catch light, and tower visibly, as if the radiance of... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1848 - 636 pages
...hills before ; — the first rises with gentle undulation, the last is bold and precipitous, " And from out the plain Heaves like a long swept wave about to break, And on the curl hangs pausing." They only who have spent their happiest days amongst mountains and Alpine scenery, can understand the... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1849 - 262 pages
...hills before ; — the first rises with gentle undulation, the last is bold and precipitous, " And from out the plain Heaves like a long swept wave about to break, And on the curl hangs pausing." Now, reader, contrast the church of Little Sodbury with many a stately cathedral, whose enamelled walls... | |
 | John Edward Bowden - 1869 - 626 pages
...Soracte's heights displayed, Not now in snow, which asks the lyric Roman's aid For our remembrance, and from out the plain Heaves like a long swept wave about to break, And on the curl hangs pausing." The Campagna, with its singular pale green, and veins or fosses of verdure, delighted me. From the... | |
 | John Edward Bowden - 1869 - 520 pages
...Soracte's heights displayed, Not now in snow, which asks the lyric Roman's aid For our remembrance, and from out the plain Heaves like a long swept wave about to break, And on the curl hangs pausing." The Campagna, with its sigular pale green, and veins or fosses of verdure, delighted me. From the lip... | |
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Byron has in three lines presented an exact image of this hill, which — " from out the plain Heaves, like a long swept wave about to break, And on the curl hangs pausing. 