 | 1817 - 628 pages
...power, and beauty hev describes. The following stanza presents a striking instance. 1 But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of snows ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Switzerland - 1811 - 618 pages
...for ever." — Rogers. It was such a prospect that inspired those remarkable lines of Byron : — " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The Avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! • All that expands the spirit, yet appals. Gather around... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...extend to all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. " Biit these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these... | |
 | England - 1818 - 764 pages
...thi-m by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, •• The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Hare pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps And throned...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche, the thunderbolt of snow,"— Even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - Europe - 1818 - 330 pages
...travellers may well record their names with gratiuule. But I must close this letter. Some lines of «fcord Byron occur to me as admirably descriptive of the...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits... | |
 | 1818 - 782 pages
...few detached lines is all that is left in regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, " The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...halls Of cold sublimity) where forms and falls The avalanche, the thunderbolt of snow,"— . Even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - Europe - 1819 - 370 pages
...scenes in •which it leaves me : " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose, vast wall) Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And thoned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit , yet appals, Gather around these... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 292 pages
...all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. D2 LXII. *« But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...here extend to all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though empires near them f LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these... | |
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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,... 
