| Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 Seiten
...into itself, and rusts ingloriously. " He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peak-, most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or...icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on bis naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led." The reader is of course aware... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 Seiten
...loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; IJc who surpasses or subduos mankind, Must look down oil the hate of those below. Though high above the sun...Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led. XLVI. Away with these! trne Wisdom's world will be Within its own... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 Seiten
...waste With its own flickering, or a sword laid by Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. XLV. He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest...Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led. XLVI. Away with these ! true Wisdom's world will be Within its own... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 Seiten
...sword laid by Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. : f g^ eHILDE HAROLDS PILGRIMAGE. ' XLV. He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find, The loftiest...Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led. XLVI. Away with these! true Wisdom's world will he Within its own... | |
| Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 Seiten
...bloom which was to shed its fragrance for eternity in other worlds. LETTER XLIV. He who ascends the mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt...Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led. BTROK. RESPECT is due to high station; but the meed of severe rebuke... | |
| John Galt - 1824 - 462 Seiten
...waste With its own flickering ; or a sword laid by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. " He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest...Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.' The stern sublimity of this highly-poetical and descriptive passage... | |
| John Galt - 1824 - 470 Seiten
...ingloriously. " He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and enow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down...Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.' The stern sublimity of this highly-poetical and descriptive passage... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 Seiten
...look down on the hate of those helow. (, Though high ahove the sun of glory glow, I And far heneath the earth and ocean spread, '; Round him are icy rocks, and loudly hlow ; Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.... | |
| 1825 - 504 Seiten
...or a sword laid by Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds...Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led. The concluding simile is trite. The whole sense of the passage is,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 Seiten
...Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him arc icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led. XLVI. Away with these! true wisdom's world will be Within its own... | |
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