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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,... "
Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas - Page 95
by Sabine Baring-Gould, Alfred Newton - 1863 - 447 pages
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Childe Harold's pilgrimage, a romaunt

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pages
...these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have piunacled in clonds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls...and falls The avalanche— the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show [below. How Earth...
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The works of lord Byron

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 pages
...Still springing o'er thy banks, though К pires near them ft But t In ч recede. Above me are the Л I The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy »ral .And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where form« and fall The afalanche—...
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The works of lord Byron including his suppressed poems

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1827 - 888 pages
...springing o'er thy bauk\ though empires near them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their suowy scalps. And throned eternity in icy h.nl-. Of cold suMtniitv, where forms and falls The malanche...
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The College Album [afterw.] The Glasgow University Album. 1828,36,54,69,74 ...

University of Glasgow - College prose, English - 1836
...his " bodily sense," when he conceived and penned those noble lines : — " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around those summits, as to show How earth may pierce...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...few detaehed 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...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 98, Part 1; Volume 143

Early English newspapers - 1828 - 740 pages
...scientific projection of the shadows. Mont Blanc. — Bulcock, Strand. This is a beautiful picture of the — " palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have...throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity." It is taken from the vale of Chamounr, and executed with great accuracy and effect, by William Delamotte,...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Including the Suppressed Poems. Complete in One Volume

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...banks, though empires near them fall. LXIÏ. Rut these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palace« of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icv halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All...
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The works of lord Byron including the suppressed poems

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1828 - 780 pages
...recede. A bore me at» the Alp«, Tue palace« of lulure. whose *a>l walls Нл»е pinnacled ia cloud« their snowy scalps. And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and fills The avalanche — the thunderbolt of mow \ All that eip.indi the spirit, yet appal«, Gather...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 98

English essays - 1828 - 718 pages
...scientific projection of the shadows. Mm.1 Blanc. — Bulcock, Strand. This is a beautiful picture of the — " palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, •^'throned eternit;- in icy halls ' tubUmity." It ¡a taken from the vale of Chamouni, and executed...
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 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...falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow," — even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were regarded by the ancients...
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