 The glaciers creep Like snakes that watch their prey, from their far fountains, Slow rolling on; there, many a precipice, Frost and the Sun in scorn of mortal power Have piled : dome, pyramid, and pinnacle, A city of death, distinct with many a tower...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 1741878Full view - About this book
 | Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, Arnold Lunn - Alps - 1927 - 328 pages
...Slow rolling on ; there, many a precipice, Frost and the Sun in scorn of mortal power Have piled : dome, pyramid, and pinnacle, A city of death, distinct...many a tower And wall impregnable of beaming ice. Yet not a city, but a flood of ruin Is there, that from the boundaries of the sky Rolls its perpetual... | |
 | Mary Poovey - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 309 pages
...a citadel of death. there, many a precipice, Frost and the Sun in scorn of mortal power Have piled: dome, pyramid, and pinnacle, A city of death, distinct...many a tower And wall impregnable of beaming ice. Yet not a city, but a flood of ruin Is there, that from the boundaries of the sky Rolls its perpetual... | |
 | Steven Goldsmith - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 346 pages
...High atop Mont Blanc . . . many a precipice, Frost and the Sun in scorn of mortal power Have piled: dome, pyramid, and pinnacle, A city of death, distinct...many a tower And wall impregnable of beaming ice. Yet not a city, but a flood of ruin Is there, that from the boundaries of the sky Rolls its perpetual... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1994 - 752 pages
...fountains, Slow rolling on; there, many a precipice, Frost and the Sun in scorn of mortal power Have piled: dome, pyramid, and pinnacle, A city of death, distinct with many a tower Yet not a city, but a flood of ruin Is there, that from the boundaries of the sky Rolls its perpetual... | |
 | Guinn Batten - Business & Economics - 1998 - 326 pages
...fountains, Slow rolling on; there, many a precipice, Frost and the Sun in scorn of mortal power Have piled: dome, pyramid, and pinnacle, A city of death, distinct...many a tower And wall impregnable of beaming ice. (4.100-106) Such seductive power leads Shelley to speculate that it may lay waste its own progeny,... | |
 | Kate Flint - Art - 2000 - 450 pages
...fountains, Slow rolling on; there, many a precipice. Frost and the Sun in scorn of mortal power Have piled: dome, pyramid, and pinnacle, A city of death, distinct...many a tower And wall impregnable of beaming ice. Yet not a city, but a flood of ruin Is there, that from the boundaries of the sky Rolls its perpetual... | |
 | Olga Fischer, Max Nänny - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 412 pages
...fountains, Slow rolling on; there, many a precipice, Frost and the Sun in scorn of mortal power Have piled: dome, pyramid, and pinnacle, A city of death, distinct...many a tower And wall impregnable of beaming ice. near his water-trough in Sicily "[o]na hot, hot day" (1. 2), the poet also iconically lengthens the... | |
 | Stuart Peterfreund - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 432 pages
...(11. 100-101). "Power" in likeness of Mont Blanc is also an inexhaustible source of death, figured as dome, pyramid, and pinnacle, A city of death, distinct...many a tower And wall impregnable of beaming ice. (0. 104-6) One salient lesson that "Power" in likeness of Mont Blanc teaches "the adverting mind" is... | |
 | Onno Oerlemans - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 268 pages
...fountains, Slow rolling on; there, many a precipice, Frost and the Sun in scorn of mortal power Have piled: dome, pyramid, and pinnacle, A city of death, distinct...many a tower And wall impregnable of beaming ice. Yet not a city, but a flood of ruin Is there, that from the boundaries of the sky Rolls its perpetual... | |
 | Antonio D. Tillis - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 163 pages
...poem he had in hand: there, many a precipice, Frost and the Sun in scorn of mortal power Have piled: dome, pyramid, and pinnacle, A city of death, distinct...many a tower And wall impregnable of beaming ice. . . . Below, vast caves Shine in the rushing torrents' restless gleam, Which from those secret chasms... | |
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