 | 1837 - 578 páginas
...scenes : • ' Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walla Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forma and falls The avalanche, the thunder-bolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit yet appals, Gather... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1837 - 716 páginas
...beside, behind 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." As the eye looks first into the depths of the glen some six thousand feet below, and then the sight,... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam, Author of An introduction and index to general history - 1838 - 302 páginas
...scenes : - " 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...yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below." The village of Chamouni is situated in the... | |
 | 1838 - 426 páginas
...Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy balls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunder-bolt of snow," — even in regard to these, a few detached lines is all that has been left by the Roman poets. On... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1838 - 446 páginas
...CI-IAMOUNY. " 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, wlîcre forms and falls The Avalanche— the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet... | |
 | William Fullerton Cumming - 1839 - 838 páginas
...attempt. — " 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...spirit yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to shew How earth may pierce to Heaven, and leave Vain man below." The eye embraces a horizon of about... | |
 | Ludwig Gerold Meyer von Knonau - 1839 - 688 páginas
...SOîonJtblanc u 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 foils The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the .spirit, yet appals, Gather around... | |
 | Richard Brown (architect.) - 1841 - 618 páginas
...COTTAGE. • " 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,...yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below." BYBON'S Childe Harold, Canto iii. THE annexed... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 páginas
...these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds delight; [below. riow Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man LXIII. But, ere these matchless heights... | |
 | John Barrow - 1841 - 404 páginas
...the varied and manifold scenes which the hand of Nature has supplied for the contemplation of man. " All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below." A succession of peaked rocks, rising one... | |
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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,... 
