 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1845 - 776 pages
...to all, Still 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...and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to How earth may pierce... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...resting, MONT BLANC, the " Monarch of mountains," stood forth in perfect distinctness to the eye. "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... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 406 pages
...of mountains," stood forth in perfect distinctness to the eye. "Above me are the Alps, Thfi palacea of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds...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... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - Attorneys general - 1845 - 606 pages
...assigning the honour of that distinction to Manfred. Here is a specimen of downright bombast. " Above me are the Alps The palaces of nature, whose vast...throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forme and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow !" Canto IIl. 63. Another instance of the... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And thron'd 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 How earth may pierce... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...The palnces of nature, whose vast walls II iv pinnncled in cluiids their snowy scalps, And ttironed eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolts of anow." Even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...more attractive scenes of Switzerland. The opening is of suitable grandeur. " 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though empires near them fall. l.XII. 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 [below. How Earth... | |
 | John Murray - 1846 - 552 pages
...ever." — Koyers. 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 the summits, as to show How earth may soar... | |
 | Francis Jeffrey - 1846 - 682 pages
...more attractive scenes of Switzerland. The opening is of suitable grandeur. " 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,... 
