| George Keate - 1790 - 388 pages
...for ever ? Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? And who commanded...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once, amidst their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you... | |
| 1803 - 508 pages
...for ever ! Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder, and eternal foam ! And who commanded, and the silence came — " Here shall the billows stiffen, and have rest?" Ye ice-falls ! ye that from yon dizzy heights Adown enormous... | |
| 1803 - 502 pages
...tur ever ! Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder, and eternal foam ! And who commanded, and the siLence came — " Here shall the billows stiffen, and have, rest ?" Ye ice-falls ! ye that from yon dizzy heights Adown enormous... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 334 pages
...for ever ? Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? And who commanded...Ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mightjr Voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless Torrents ! silent Cataracts... | |
| 1817 - 494 pages
...from Mr. Coleridge's little known, but sublime, * Hymn before Sun-rise in the Valley of Chamouny.' Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! \Vho made you... | |
| 1860 - 796 pages
...death-stricken silence — making all nature dumb, save where the distant thunder of the iceberg roars. " Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty Toice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plungo ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! " In... | |
| 1834 - 918 pages
...for ever ? Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? And who commanded (and the silence came,) Here let the hillows stiffen, and have rest ? " Ye ice-falls I ye that from the mountain's hrow Adown enormous ravines... | |
| 1850 - 704 pages
...expressed in their own glorious language : — " Ye ice- falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow .A down enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks,...voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge f Motionless torrents t silent cataracts ! " " O'er the savage sea, The glossy ocean of the mountain-ice,... | |
| Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 pages
...invulnerable life, Yonr strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder, and etemal foam ? And who commanded (and the silence came), Here let the Billows stiffen, and have rest ? Who made you glorious as the Gates of Hearen Beneath the keen full Moon ? Who bade the Sun Cloath... | |
| First flowers - 1825 - 306 pages
...the " Hymn before Sun-rise in the Valley of Chamouny f" Ye ice-falls, yc, that from the monntain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks that heard a mighty Toice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts 1 Who... | |
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