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 Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3141818Full view - About this book
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...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... | |
| John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pages
...brought to the vicinity of the Alps; and here the author is in his element. These mighty hills are — ' The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...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... | |
| John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pages
...brought to the vicinity of the Alps; and here the author is in his element. These mighty hills are — ' The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...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... | |
| Arlincourt (vicomte d', Charles Victor Prévôt) - 1822 - 270 pages
...heart ! . . . . What was it ?..... the Wild Mountain! Elodia was in the midst of high mountains ; — " The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gathers around their summits, as to show How earth may... | |
| 1827 - 472 pages
...Byron's just description of ' Those palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds Uieir snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halls Of...and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirits, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to shew, How earth may... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 512 pages
...the beauty and grandeur of which it is easier to feel than to describe. • Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...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... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...Still springing o'er thy banks, though empires near them fall But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...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.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...springingo'er thy banks, though empires near them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...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,... | |
| George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...banks, though Empires near tliemfall. But these recede. Above me are the Alpi, The palaces of \ature, . [They bring water — he drinks. I lire again— from henceforth The goblet I reserve j The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, j Gather around... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pages
...these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have piunacled in clonds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls...and falls The avalanche— the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show [below. How Earth... | |
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