 Passed whole woods of withered pines, all withered ; trunks stripped and barkless, branches lifeless ; done by a single winter, — their appearance reminded me of me and my family.  Byron - Page 109by John Nichol - 1894 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Murray - 1867 - 660 pages
...field has been calculated at 115 square miles, or about one-sixth of all the glaciers among the Alps. " whole woods of withered pines— all withered; trunks...and barkless; branches lifeless; done by a single winter—their appearance reminded me of me and my family." In descending into the valley, the Wetterhorn... | |
 | Fergus Ferguson - 1869 - 240 pages
...guide-book, Lord Byron's description of the same scene, when he witnessed it during his Swiss tour: "Passed whole woods of withered pines, all withered,...by a single winter: their appearance reminded me of myself and my family." Poor Byron! A single winter had blighted his married life ; but it is to be... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1869 - 644 pages
...lightning ; but the whole of the day as fine in point of weather as the day on which Paradise was made. Passed whole woods of withered pines, all withered...barkless, branches lifeless ; done by a single winter 'f, — their appearance reminded me of me and my family. " September 24. " Set off at seven ; up at... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1873 - 798 pages
...lightning ; but the whole of the day as fine in point of weather as the day on which Paradise was made. Passed whole woods of withered pines, all withered;...their appearance reminded me of me and my family." 1 " Ye avalanches, whom a breath draws down In mountainous o'erwhelming, come and crush me ! / hear... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 898 pages
...Mary's grandson, Charles I , turned quite grey, in like manner, during his stay at Curisbrooke.J < [" snake, Will others quail — Siriss Journal.'] Which I outlive ! — Ye toppling crags of ice ! Te avalanches, whom a breath... | |
 | John Nichol - 1880 - 240 pages
...glaciers ; then the Dent d' Argent, shining like truth ; then the Eighers and the "Wetterhorn. Ileard the avalanches falling every five minutes. From where...journal which is not pressed into the author's service. lie turns his deepest griefs to artistic gain, and uses five or six times, for literary purposes, the... | |
 | 1883 - 778 pages
...in the sunshine. . . . Left the horses, took off my coat, and went to the summit, 7000 English feet above the level of the sea, and 5000 feet above the...me of me and my family." Students of Manfred will recognise whole sentences, only slightly modified in its verse. Though Byron talks with contempt of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1883 - 1162 pages
...tide; it was white and sulphury, and immeasurably deep in appearance. . . . Arrived at the Griudelwuld; dined; mounted again, and rode to the higher glacier...barkless. branches lifeless; done by a single winter. Then- appearance reminded me of me and my family." Percy Bysahe Shelley. From the original picture... | |
 | Roden Noel - 1890 - 284 pages
...and the Rosenlaui Glacier — by Berne and Friburg, back to Diodati. In his journal he says — "The glacier like a frozen hurricane — starlight beautiful,...Their appearance reminded me of me and my family. ... In the weather for this tour I have been very fortunate. I was disposed to be pleased. I am a lover... | |
 | Otto Schmidt - 1890 - 194 pages
...Passed whole woods of withered pines, all witlwed; trunks stripped and barkless, branches Ufeless; done by a single winter, their appearance reminded me of me and my family. Später in Italien nennt er in den schönen Stanzas to the Po diesen Strom „a mirror of my heart"... | |
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