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...scenes of Switzerland. The opening is of suitable grandeur. " 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...

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...is absorbed in the view of the mountains, — "Alps on Alps in clusters swelling!" and amid those " Palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity—" one feels as if shut in from all common-place associations and sources of pleasure, and constrained...

...to recover the body was considered impossible. EXCUBSIONS ABOUND CHAMOUNT. " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...their snowy scalps, ; And throned Eternity in icy hails Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The Avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that...

...springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. LXII. 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 I All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show [below. How Earth...

...Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast waJls 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 of snow! — All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How earth may...

...familiar face, And clasp the mountain in his mind's embrace. BYRON'S Island. 35* 2. 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...

...— '• Alps on alps in clusters a welling I " And amid thoso " Palace* of nature, whose vast walla Have pinnacled In clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity In Icy halla Of cold sublimity," one feels as if shut in from all commonplace associations and sources of...

...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...and 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...