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
| George Clinton - Poets, English - 1828 - 888 pages
...powerful, and the most beautiful, that has perhaps ever been given in this or in any other language : The roar of waters! — from the headlong height Velino...hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of theihgreat agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the... | |
| William Darby - Canada - 1828 - 356 pages
...his imagery would not have more vividly pourtrayed this scene, whose parts a poet alone can describe. "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 their rocks of jet, That gird... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...orisons for this suspension of disgust. LXIX. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height VV'ino cleaves the wave-worn precipice; The fall of waters! rapid as the light The [lashing mass roams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters ! where they how) and hiss, | Aad boil in... | |
| J. D. Sinclair - Italy - 1829 - 352 pages
...description must be familiar to my readers, I cannot resist the impulse of engrafting it into my sketches : " 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... | |
| Harriet Morton (author of Protestant vigils.) - 1829 - 626 pages
...Nera, into which the Velino falls; and, after soaring with the eagles for five miles, you suddenly hear the •• Roar of waters ! from the headlong height...fall of waters rapid as the light, The flashing? mass foiims shaking the abyss." A brilliant rainbow magnificently circled its foaming surges, which added... | |
| Periodicals - 1830 - 570 pages
...the poet Lentz — ' Here is a Waterhell !' is identical with Lord Byron's « Hell of Waters !' • The roar of waters from, the headlong height, Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of wafers ! rapid as the light ; The flashing mass foams, shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 376 pages
...clean With Nature's baptism, — 'tis to him ye must Pay orisons for this suspension of disgust. LXVI. 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 N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 358 pages
...suspeusion of disgust. LZIx. 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 ont from this Their Phlegethon , curls ronnd the rocks of jet That gird... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...clean With nature's baptism, — 't is 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 N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...clean With nature's baptism, — 't is 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... | |
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