...heights towards the lower countries of Europe. These are, to use the words of a late illustrious poet, ' The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And tbroned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt...

...rich, luxuriant mould ; the rocky hill, shorn of its verdant glories ; and the towering mountains, •' Whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halts Of cold sublimity"— are the displays of that power, whose agents have broken down the solid...

...enrich them, in his " Manfred," and in the third canto of " Childe Harold. " " Above us 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 these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce...

...enrich them, in his " Manfred," and in the third canto of " Childe Harold. " " Above us 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 these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce...

...slow. Snowdon ! mark, 'tis magie's hour ; Now the mutter'd spell has power ; * Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls, Have pinnacled...throned eternity in icy halls, Of cold sublimity.'' CHILD HAROLD. CANT. L f Gray seems to have becn much pleased with these lines. Speaking of the advantages...

...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...

...Still springing o'er thy banks, though empires near them fall But these recede. 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 these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce...

...left in regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, "The palaces of nature, whose -rest walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps,...forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of SDOW," — even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were regarded by...

...Still springing o'er thy banks, though empires near them fall. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy hal]s Of cold sublimity, where forms akd falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that...

...speeds, and Albert — Albert — - falls ! the dear old father bleeds f 340. Above me are the Alps, the palaces of Nature, whose vast, walls have pinnacled in clouds their snowyscalps, and throned Eternity in icy halls of cold sublimity,, where forms and falls the avalanche...