 | P. C. H. - 1856 - 84 pages
...unfathomable depths — icy solitudes, silent as death, save when their echoes are aroused as — " Far along From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder," while the vallies and plains beneath him are dressed in a smiling mantle of verdure. In such a scene,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 pages
...hint for the conclusion of his famous ninety-second stanza of the third Canto of Childe Harold — " Far along From peak to peak the rattling crags among...thunder ! Not from one lone cloud. But every mountain n«w hath found a tongue, And Jura answers through her misty shroud Back to the joyous Alps who call... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 pages
...into madness. Winds, tempests, warring, bewailing, uttering a forlorn hope or muttering despair. " Far along, From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder." There is war in heaven : every mountain is trumpet-tongued ; the artillery of the elements threatens... | |
 | Edward Thomson - 1857 - 408 pages
...does his troops, to trample them under foot. If he leads his audience to some Alpine hight, where, "Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder , And Jura answers through her misty shroud Back to the joyous Alps," he does not, like Byron, leap... | |
 | National Institute for the Promotion of Science - 1857 - 92 pages
...when ennuyed with the grand«ur of their flight from peak to peak among the mountains. 4< And hark from peak to peak the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder." » "Caw the live crows," would have been much grander: but Byron, it is to be regretted, wrote before... | |
 | 1857 - 820 pages
...into madness. Winds, tempests, warring, bewailing, uttering a forlorn hope or muttering despair. " Far along From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the lire thunder." There is war in heaven : every mountain is trumpet-tongued ; the artillery of the elements... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pages
...difficult to climb the hill of science." Exc. 9. In poetry, the subject often follows the verb ; as, " Far along, « From peak to peak the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder." — BYBON. . . GOVERNMENT OF VERBS. § 385. RULE XXVIII. — Transitive verbs govern the objective... | |
 | John Murray - 1858 - 558 pages
...darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Kar along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder Í .Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pages
...fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy pray'r ! XCII. The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong,...crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone eloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers through her misty shroud, Back... | |
 | Anne Bowman - 1859 - 488 pages
...in their weariness, to be interminable. Suddenly, the thunder burst out in deafening volleys — " From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps...! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now has found a tongue." And amidst the crash of a hundred echoes, and the fiery flashes of the lightning... | |
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The sky is changed! — and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! 
