...Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed,...scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien." Childe Harold, canto iv. st. 69-72. " I saw," says Lord Byron, " the ' Cascata del Marmore' of Terni...

...beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits,* amidst the infernal surge, Like hope upon a death-betl, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn...scene, Love watching madness with unalterable mien. * Colonel Bouchette (who wrote after Lord Byron on this subject) observes that, according to the altitude...

...Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like hope upon a death-bed,...scene, Love watching madness with unalterable mien." It were easy to enlarge, but we must desist. A reference therefore to Richardson and Burke, two of...

...verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, (2) Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady...scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien. (1) I saw the " Cascata del marmore " of Terni twice, at different periods ; once from the summit of...

...verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, (2) Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady...the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalttrublu mien. LXXIII. Once more upon the woody Apennin?, The infant Alps, which — had I not before...

...Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed,...serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn; Resembling1, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien." BYRON. THE...

...heneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge,2 Like Hope upon a death-hed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, hears serene Its hrilliant hues with all their heams unshorn : Resemhling, 'mid the torture of the...

...iris sits amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed ; and, unworn It steady dyes, whilst all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears...scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien." t In several of. the Highland districts, and particularly in that now under notice, the state of property,...

...side, beneath the glittering morn, An iris sits amidst the infernal surge, Like hope upon a death bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn...scene, Love watching madness with unalterable mien. Now all this is descriptive of the horrible, not of the sublime; and the great characteristic of a...

...Horribly, beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed,...the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unaltered mien. The verdure occasioned by the eternal showers of spray, which fall to a considerable...