 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 95by Sabine Baring-Gould, Alfred Newton - 1863 - 447 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...not much strike by comparison ; but the situation is commandBut 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 [below. riow Earth... | |
 | Richard Brown (architect.) - Architecture, Domestic - 1841 - 618 pages
...ШТТАОЕ, SECTION AN В 3» ETAЗ LS , PLATES XXV.— XXVI. A SWISS COTTAGE. • " 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...fall. LXIL But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Нате ay, And many a rock which steeply lowers, And noble arch in proud decay, Look o'er this vale ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show [below. How Earth... | |
 | John Murray - 1842 - 482 pages
...It was such a prospect that inspired those remarkable lines of Byron : — " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Kternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The Avalanche — the thunderbolt of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 pages
...Empires near them fall. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast waUs Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...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... | |
 | John Price Durbin - Europe - 1844 - 342 pages
...which Moses spake when he said, " The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the great deep." " 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... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...the " Monarch of mountains," stood forth in perfect distinctness to the eye. "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... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - Attorneys general - 1845 - 606 pages
...honour of that distinction to Manfred. Here is a specimen of downright bombast. " Above me are the Alps The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forme and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow !" Canto IIl. 63. Another instance of the... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...the pursuit of power. ' " And leave us leisure to be good."— Gray THE ALPS. ABOVE me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And thron'd Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...The palnces of nature, whose vast walls II iv pinnncled in cluiids their snowy scalps, And ttironed eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolts of anow." Even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were... | |
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