 | 1817 - 628 pages
...describes. The following stanza presents a striking instance. 1 But these recede. 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 -... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Switzerland - 1811 - 618 pages
...It was such a prospect that inspired those remarkable lines of Byron : — " 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 —... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. " Biit these recede. 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 —... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pages
...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 walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalancbe —... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - Europe - 1818 - 330 pages
...as admirably descriptive of the scenes in which it leaves me : " ———— 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 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 in clouds their snowy scalps, And thoned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche —... | |
 | Robert Charles Dallas - 1820 - 622 pages
...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 walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy hallii Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche —... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...springing o'er thy banks, though empires near them f LXII. But these recede. 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 —... | |
 | 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 in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche —... | |
 | 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 in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls, Of cold sublimity where forms and falls The avalanche —... | |
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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,... 
