 | William Coombs Dana - 1845 - 408 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...may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below." The narrow strip of valley appeared completely enclosed and hemmed in by the numerous snowy peaks, ranged... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And thron'd Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms...earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below. BYRON. TO THE MOON. SWEET Moon, if, like Crotona's sage ', By any spell my hand could dare To make... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1845 - 408 pages
...The palnces of nature, whose vast walls II iv pinnncled in cluiids their snowy scalps, And ttironed eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolts of anow." Even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were... | |
 | 1845 - 62 pages
...the painting. " All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gathers around these summits, as to shew, How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below." The Mountain Scenery, Mer De Glace, and Mont Blanc, painted by Mu. DANSON. THE STALACTITE CAVERNS. CONSTRUCTED... | |
 | Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 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...may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.'' One evening, Arbridge had wandered far from his dwelling place, the little mountain cottage wherein... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 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...Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below." On this magnificent threshold, the poet pauses, to honour the patriot field of Morat, and the shrine... | |
 | John Murray - 1846 - 552 pages
...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...of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Outlier around these summits, as to show How earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below."... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1847 - 526 pages
...Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast waJls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And thron'd eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms...earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below. BYRON'S Childe Hcrold. 3. Who first beholds the Alps, — that mighty chain Of mountains, stretching... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And thron'd eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms...spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to showHow earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below. BYRON'S Childe. Harold. 3. Who first... | |
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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,... 
