 | 1817 - 628 pàgines
...beauty hev describes. The following stanza presents a striking instance. 1 But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast...forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of snows ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How earth... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 618 pàgines
...ever." — Rogers. It was such a prospect that inspired those remarkable lines of Byron : — " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast...and falls The Avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! • All that expands the spirit, yet appals. Gather around these summits, as to show _ How earth... | |
 | 1818 - 782 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pàgines
...of Lord Byron occur to me as admirably descriptive of the scenes in which it leaves me : " • Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalancbe — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expandi the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 330 pàgines
...Byron occur to me as admirably descriptive of the scenes in which it leaves me : " ———— Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast...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... | |
 | 1818 - 790 pàgines
...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...eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falle sense which He entertained of the beauty even of the minutest of the works of nature. If the... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1819 - 370 pàgines
...scenes in •which it leaves me : " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose, vast wall) 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 shew How earth may pierce... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pàgines
...Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And thoned Eternity in icy 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, as to show IIowEarlh may pierce... | |
 | Robert Charles Dallas - 1820 - 622 pàgines
...into phosphoric seas," and with the sounds of his lyre set " the big rain dancing to the earth." Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast...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 Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 292 pàgines
...Still springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. D2 LXII. *« But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast...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... | |
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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,... 
