 The roar of waters!— from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture; while...  The Monthly magazine - Page 495by Monthly literary register - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Hugh William Williams - Greece - 1820 - 462 pages
...display such a scene of havoc as appalled the soul. But hear Lord Byron : VOL. i. s 274 ALL OF VELINO. " The roar of waters! from the headlong height Velino...hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet, That gird... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...clean With Nature's baptism, — 'tis to him ye must Pay orisons for this suspension of disgust. LXIX. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height...hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 292 pages
...suspension of disgust. LXIX. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave- worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light...hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird... | |
 | English literature - 1840 - 614 pages
...flight, shouted, at the very top of his voice, the following beautiful lines from " Childe Harold :" " The roar of waters ! from the headlong height, Velino...waters ! rapid as the light, The flashing mass foams, shafting the abyss, The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...orisons for this suspension of disgust. LX1X. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Ytlino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shakmg the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - Canada - 1822 - 132 pages
...waters from the headlong height, Velino, cleaves the way-worn precipice; The fall of waters, rapid at the light, The flashing mass foams, shaking the abyss,...hiss, And boil in endless torture, while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon curls round the rocks of jet, That gird... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - England - 1822 - 222 pages
...peer," that I beg you to accept his appropriate and poetic imagery, ininstead of my humble prose: " The fall of waters! rapid as the light, The flashing...shaking the abyss; The hell of waters! where they bowl and hiss, And boil iu endless torture; while the sweat Of their great agony, rung out from this... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
...fancy which our reason scorns ? Ah! surely nothing dies, but something mourns ! THE CATARACT OF VELINO. The roar of waters !—from the headlong height Velino...hiss And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...CATARACT OF VELINO. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave- worn precipice : The fall of waters ! rapid as the light...hiss And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - History - 1824 - 532 pages
...I have read: — " The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave- worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light...hiss And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, rung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet . That gird... | |
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