 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 Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...clean Wilh Nature's baptism, — 'tis to him ye must Pay orisons for this suspension of disgust. LXIX. ilas Andrus & son ihey howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - Rome - 1894 - 240 pages
...still celebrated as that of Terni, or the Cascade delle Marmore. See Byron, Childe Harold, iv. 69 : " The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height...light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss," etc. By this work the inhabitants of Reate obtained a considerable tract of arable land called Rosm... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...waters 1 — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave- worn precipice ; The fall of waters I rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters 1 where they howl and hiss, Of their great agony, wrung out Irom this Their Phlcgethon, curls round... | |
 | Elinor Mead Buckingham - English poetry - 1897 - 356 pages
...with far more reverent tread Than ever paced the slab which paves the princely head. (VELTNO.) LXIX. 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... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...waters ! — from the beadlong height Velino cleaves the wave- worn precipice ; The fall of waters l rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 236 pages
...still celebrated as that of Terni, or the Cascade delle Marmore. See Byron, Childe HuroUl, iv. 69 : " The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height...wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the li^ht The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss," etc. By this work the inhabitants of Reate obtained... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 592 pages
...natural beauty which brings back the splendour in the grass, the glory in the flower ! "] LXVIII. 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... | |
 | D. Brown Anderson - Anwoth (Scotland) - 1899 - 398 pages
...words from the Book of Genesis is all sufficient in prose to describe it: " The waters prevailed." " The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; How profound the gulf ! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1899 - 332 pages
...life a moment lave it clean 610 LXVI LXIX The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino0 cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light 615 The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900 - 492 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... | |
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