| Thomas Rose - 1832 - 242 pages
...mountain fastness, of much grandeur and- sublimity. Utter desolation appears to characterize the spot. " He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest...surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below : Tho' high abóte the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread,... | |
| Robert Montgomery Martin - 1832 - 432 pages
...perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they feel o'eroast With sorrow and supineness, and so die : E'en as a flame unfed, which runs to waste With its own...by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously." But so chary of their power have the Indian government been, that I am informed by a gentleman now... | |
| Charles Doyne Sillery - 1834 - 248 pages
...Harold — a stanza, which has always struck me as being particularly magnificent, to this effect — " He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest...surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread,... | |
| 1835 - 534 pages
...Pilgrim ! Well might he exclaim : ' He who ascends lo mountain tops, shall find The loftiest peaks mop! wrapt in clouds and snow, — He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far bmtath the earth anil ocean spread,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die ; Even as a flame unfed, which runs to...by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. for or with them ; perhaps more offensive to human vanity than the active cruelty of more trembling... | |
| Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...days, surviving perils past, Mi'lt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die ; Even as a flame unfed, which runs to...by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. BYRON. THE debt which a man of liberal education owes to the great minds of former ages is incalculable.... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die; Even as a flame unfed, which runs to waste...a sword laid by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriousry. XLV. He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...perils past, M dt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die; Eu'ii as a flame unfed, which runs to waste With its own...by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. XLV. He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow j... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 352 pages
...days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die ; Even as a flame unfed, which runs to waste 'With its own flickering, or a sword laid hy, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The... | |
| Aristomenes (fict. name.) - 1838 - 296 pages
...Euephnus and Tyrtaeus commenced their journey to Sparta. CHAPTER IX. He who ascends to mountain tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds...surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread,... | |
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