 | William Brockedon - 1833 - 308 pages
...enrich them, in his " Manfred," and in the third canto of " Childe Harold. " " Above us are the Alps — The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven , yet leave vain man below !" Chamouni, from the immense number of its English visitors, appears to be a goal the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1833 - 362 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 ! Ail that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show [below. How Earth... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 764 pages
...slow. Snowdon ! mark, 'tis magie's hour ; Now the mutter'd spell has power ; * Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls, Have pinnacled...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 pages
...few detached lines is all that is left in regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, " The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...falls The avalanche— the thunderbolt of snow"— even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were regarded by the ancients... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 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...to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below. ******** Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal face, — The mirror, where the stars... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 292 pages
...left in regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, "The palaces of nature, whose -rest walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps,...forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of SDOW," — even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were regarded by... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 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...clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy hal]s Of cold sublimity, where forms akd falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1835 - 158 pages
...speeds, and Albert — Albert — - falls ! the dear old father bleeds f 340. Above me are the Alps, the palaces of Nature, whose vast, walls have pinnacled in clouds their snowyscalps, and throned Eternity in icy halls of cold sublimity,, where forms and falls the avalanche... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 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...yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show [below How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man LXIII. But ere these matchless heights I... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 278 pages
...sight? is all that is left In regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, "The palaces o( nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds...forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of suow,'1 — even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were regarded by... | |
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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,... 
