 | Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 pages
...the wandering Harold when he viewed them ? — " The Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.'' One evening, Arbridge had wandered far from his dwelling place, the little mountain cottage wherein... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...empires near ibem&lL But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Now, prone in dust, can only be revered ; If POPE,...whose fame and genius from the first Have foil'd th forma and falls Tho avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appab,... | |
 | William Lindsay Alexander - 1846 - 360 pages
...mountains, — "Alps on Alps in clusters swelling!" and amid those " Palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity—" one feels as if shut in from all common-place associations and sources of pleasure, and constrained... | |
 | John Murray - 1846 - 552 pages
...impossible. EXCUBSIONS ABOUND CHAMOUNT. " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, ; And throned Eternity in icy hails Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The Avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 924 pages
...Eternity in icy halls Of cold cublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow 1 All that expands the spirit, yet appals. Gather around these summits, as tu »how How earth may pierce to heaven, yet lekve vaÎD man below I" The Middle. Alps begin at about... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1907 - 1376 pages
...Empires near them fall. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The Palaces of Nature, whose vast walls f the world of thy young days: 880 Then to Jehovah...Mortal. Blessed are the dead Who die in the Lord ! snowl All that expands the spirit, yet appals Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1908 - 166 pages
...near them fall. LJX. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanrhp — t.tie t.tinnjjerhnlt of annw I All that expands the spirit,, yet, appals, Gather around... | |
 | Artur Schölkopf - 1909 - 46 pages
...folgen; in Childe Harold: — — — Above me are the Alps. The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps. And throned...Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below. Ferner in Manfred: — — — My mother Earth: And them, fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains,... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 pages
...Empires near them fall. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls ar To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.' yetappalls. Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - 1910 - 1174 pages
...forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appalls, 35 ns ; Itself unseen, but in the effects, remains. Some, to whom Heaven But ere these matchless heights I dare to scan, There is a spot should not be passed in vain, — Moral!... | |
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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,... 
