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... The Introductory Discourse and Lectures ... - Page 218by American Institute of Instruction - 1832Full view - About this book
| 1817 - 628 pages
...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 - the thunderbolt of snows ! All that... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 618 pages
...considered impossible. EXCURSIONS ABOUND CHAMOUNY. " 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... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...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 the thunderbolt of snow ! All that... | |
| Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pages
...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 the thunderbolt of snow ! All that... | |
| Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 330 pages
...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 avalanchethe thunderbolt of snow! All that expands... | |
| Robert Charles Dallas - 1820 - 622 pages
...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 the thunderbolt of snow ! All that... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...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 the thunderbolt of snow! All that... | |
| John Watkins - 1822 - 476 pages
...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 the thunderbolt of snow ! All that... | |
| Arlincourt (vicomte d', Charles Victor Prévôt) - 1822 - 270 pages
...?..... 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 All that expands the spirit, yet appals,... | |
| John Watkins - 1822 - 452 pages
...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 the thunderbolt of snow ! All that... | |
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