 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,...  Blackwood's Magazine - Seite 3161818Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 Seiten
...them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How earth may pierce... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 Seiten
...them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How earth may pierce... | |
 | James Bell - 1832 - 622 Seiten
...' The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And tbroned Eternity in icy halls 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 show How earth may pierce... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1832 - 330 Seiten
...the rocky hill, shorn of its verdant glories ; and the towering mountains, " Whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity" — are the displays of that power, whose agents have broken down the solid barriers of earth, and... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1832 - 330 Seiten
...the rocky hill, shorn of its verdant glories ; and the towering mountains, " Whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity" — are the displays of that power, whose agents have broken down the solid barriers of earlIi, and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1832 - 326 Seiten
...now I go, but go alone.—SCOTT. 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, &c.—BYRON. " ARE you sure all my things are on board, Slowand-Easy ? " asked Mr. Green, as he stood... | |
 | William Brockedon - 1833 - 438 Seiten
...canto of " Childe Harold. " " Above us are the Alps — The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce... | |
 | William Brockedon - 1833 - 308 Seiten
...canto of " Childe Harold. " " Above us are the Alps — The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 764 Seiten
...the mutter'd spell has power ; * 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.'' CHILD HAROLD. CANT. L f Gray seems to have becn much pleased with these lines. Speaking of the advantages... | |
 | 1834 - 506 Seiten
...regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, " The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...ancients with sentiments only of dismay or horror ; as a barrier from hostile nations, or as the dwelling of barbarous tribes. The torch of religion had not... | |
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