| 1842 - 592 pages
...the varied and manifold scenes which the hand of Nature has supplied for the contemplation of man. *' All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around...earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below." • A succession of peaked rocks, rising one above another as far as the eye can reach, whose dark... | |
| 1817 - 628 pages
...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 snows ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How earth... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 618 pages
...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...yet appals. Gather around these summits, as to show _ How earth may soar to heaven, yet leave vain man below." The points from which such an Alpine panorama... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...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...Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below." From thence he journeys on to Switzerland, not passing, without remark, the dwelling places of Voltaire,... | |
| 1816 - 692 pages
...their snowy scalps. The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow ! Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below." All that expands the spirit, yet appals, From thence he journeys on to Switzerland, not passing, without... | |
| 1818 - 764 pages
...•• 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...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 - 896 pages
...Have pinnacled in donde their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy hall» Of cold snbliraity, where forms and falls The avalanche— the thunderbolt...! 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/ p. 36.... | |
| 1818 - 782 pages
...themselves, " 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...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 - 904 pages
...scalps, And throned eternity in icy balls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to showHow earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below.'' p 3G. At length he arrives on the borders... | |
| Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pages
...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 avalancbe — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expandi the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these... | |
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