 | George Barrell Cheever - 1844 - 950 pages
...sky-pointing peaks and robe of silent cataracts, rises like a cloud of incense from the earth 1 — " Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made...flowers, Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feett God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer ! and let the ice-plains echo, God !... | |
 | 1849 - 612 pages
...return home, I was delighted to find the forgotten idea expressed in their own glorious language : ' Ye ice-falls, ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts !'* O'er the savage sea The glassy ocean of the mountain ice, We skim its rugged breakers, which put... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 320 pages
...ravines steeply slope, — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty noise, And stopped at once amidst their maddest plunge, — Motionless torrents ! silent...Who bade the Sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who with lovely flowers Of living: blue spread garlands at your feet? — God ! God ! the torrents like a shout... | |
 | David Purdie Thomson - 1849 - 516 pages
...to sudden fracture. 230. Mist-cap of the iceberg. 240. Physical properties of ice. " Ye icy-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1849 - 344 pages
...dark firs, on the side of an opposite mountain. I thought of nothing but a glacier, of course. • Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made...as the gates of Heaven, Beneath the keen full moon ? "What could it be ? An icy pinnacle on the glacier of Bossons ? There is one that looks like the... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter, Dwight Everett Watkins - 1925 - 296 pages
...who commanded,—and the silence came,— "Here let the billows stiffen and have rest?" Ye ice-falls! that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines...made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the full keen moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue,... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 pages
...came), Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest? Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow 10 Adown enormous ravines slope amain— Torrents, methinks,...cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven 15 Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1925 - 518 pages
...eternal foam ? And who commanded (and the silence came), HerjL let the billows stiffen, and have rest ? Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge 1 Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the... | |
 | 1865 - 406 pages
...opportunely recalled to mind, and repeated with great pathos, those glorious lines by Coleridge, — ' Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amidst their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! Silent cataracts ? Who made you glorious as the... | |
 | 1926 - 780 pages
...eternal foam? And who commanded (and the silence came), Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest? Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious... | |
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Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the... 
