 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 - 1851 - 352 Seiten
...them falI. 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... | |
 | 1851 - 436 Seiten
...with its meandering Arve ; but, " Above you 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... | |
 | 1851 - 596 Seiten
...its meandering Arve ; but, • " Above you are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walla 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... | |
 | 1852 - 410 Seiten
...cloude their enowy vcalpe, And throned eternity in icy halle Of cold sublimity, where forma and falla The avalanche— the thunderbolt« of snow." Even...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... | |
 | Willard C. George - 1852 - 266 Seiten
...man himself, a helpless worm. " 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... | |
 | Ralph Patteson Cobbold - 1900 - 454 Seiten
...TASHKURGAN But these recede — above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps And throned...cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche. BYRON. I QUITTED VIERNV FOR KASHCAR CHAPTER VI BALKA'SH TO TASHKURGAN* A stag hunt— Caravan breaks... | |
 | 1900 - 434 Seiten
...lines from «' Childe Harold.") " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walla Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow !" Europe. — Good, but did you borrow the book in which that occurs? I know it is not in one of your... | |
 | William Williamson - 1902 - 264 Seiten
...(The Times, Nov. 8th, 1901.) 12. " 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, Gathers around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce... | |
 | 1902 - 1512 Seiten
...below, midst green vales and hills, above gleam "The Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halls." Luini lived in Luino until 1533, and in Milan, Saronno, and other North Italian towns, and is said... | |
 | 1903 - 408 Seiten
...„ CHAPTER XIV. THE BODELI. " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow." BYRON. JH AT is this " Bodeli " ? It sounds very simple and innocent, and not particularly promising;... | |
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