The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 11J. Murray, 1835 |
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Page 23
... Giant , and the Great Giant ; and last , not least , the Wetterhorn . The height of the Jungfrau is thirteen thousand feet above the sea , and eleven thousand above the valley . Heard the avalanches falling every five minutes nearly ...
... Giant , and the Great Giant ; and last , not least , the Wetterhorn . The height of the Jungfrau is thirteen thousand feet above the sea , and eleven thousand above the valley . Heard the avalanches falling every five minutes nearly ...
Page 29
... Giant steed , to be bestrode by Death , ( 1 ) [ This scene is one of the most poetical and most sweetly written in the poem . There is a still and delicious witchery in the tranquillity and seclusion of the place , and the celestial ...
... Giant steed , to be bestrode by Death , ( 1 ) [ This scene is one of the most poetical and most sweetly written in the poem . There is a still and delicious witchery in the tranquillity and seclusion of the place , and the celestial ...
Page 60
... giant sons ( 1 ) Of the embrace of angels , with a sex More beautiful than they , which did draw down The erring ... giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that , when the Sons of God came in unto the daugh- ters of men , and ...
... giant sons ( 1 ) Of the embrace of angels , with a sex More beautiful than they , which did draw down The erring ... giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that , when the Sons of God came in unto the daugh- ters of men , and ...
Page 102
... Giants abominate the sound of bells , And soon the fierce antipathy was shown , The tinkling and the jingling , and the clangor , Roused their irrational , gigantic anger . " Unhappy mortals ! ever blind to fate ! Unhappy Monks ! you ...
... Giants abominate the sound of bells , And soon the fierce antipathy was shown , The tinkling and the jingling , and the clangor , Roused their irrational , gigantic anger . " Unhappy mortals ! ever blind to fate ! Unhappy Monks ! you ...
Page 103
... Giants ' have been little appreciated , by the majority of readers . Yet those who will only laugh upon a sufficient warrant , may , on analysing this bravura - poem , find legitimate matter for their mirth . The want of meaning cannot ...
... Giants ' have been little appreciated , by the majority of readers . Yet those who will only laugh upon a sufficient warrant , may , on analysing this bravura - poem , find legitimate matter for their mirth . The want of meaning cannot ...
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