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 ;... Cities of central Italy - Page 314by Augustus John C. Hare - 1884Full view - About this book
| Hugh William Williams - 1820 - 468 pages
...Of VELINO. " The roar of waters! from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing..." And mounts in spray the skies ; and thence again llcturns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...disgust. LXIX. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing...That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX. And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With... | |
| 1840 - 614 pages
...Harold :" " 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, shafting the abyss, The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...disgust. LX1X. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Ytlino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shakmg the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while... | |
| Charles Henry Wilson - 1822 - 132 pages
...waters from the headlong height, Velino, cleaves the way-worn precipice; The fall of waters, rapid at the light, The flashing mass foams, shaking the abyss,...rocks of jet, That gird the gulf around in pitiless horrors set." " And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which... | |
| Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 222 pages
...peer," that I beg you to accept his appropriate and poetic imagery, ininstead of my humble prose: " The fall of waters! rapid as the light, The flashing...shaking the abyss; The hell of waters! where they bowl and hiss, And boil iu endless torture; while the sweat Of their great agony, rung out from this... | |
| William Newnham Blane - 1824 - 532 pages
...read: — " The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave- worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing...endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, rung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet . That gird the gulph around, in... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...for this suspension of disgust. LXiX. LXV1L The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And hoil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great...That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX. And mounts in spray the skies, and thenee again Returns in an uneeasing shower, which round, With... | |
| William Newnham Blane - 1824 - 530 pages
...read: — " 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 ahyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat... | |
| 1825 - 504 pages
...Velino. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height, Velino cleaves the wave worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light, The flashing...That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set. In aiming at sublimity, Byron here produces only conceptions of disgust and horror. He applies images... | |
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