 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
 | George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...language : The roar of waters! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing...hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of theihgreat agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...Their Phiegethon, curls round the rocks of jet Thai 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, 1 With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, • ban eternal April to the ground. Making it all one emerald:... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1828 - 780 pages
...endless torture; while the sweat • Of iheir grrat agony, »rung out from lliu , Their ptilfgetlion. curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror «el, LXX. And oaoan-s io ipray the tkies, and thence again Вмипм in ao unceasing »bower, whirh... | |
 | 1830 - 570 pages
...of waters from, the headlong height, Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of wafers ! rapid as the light ; The flashing mass foams, shaking...That gird the gulf around in pitiless horror set.' It is singular that an American critic* challenges the noble poet with a want of real harmony of mind... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 358 pages
...disgust. LZIx. The roar of waters! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave -worn precipice; The fall of waters! rapid as the light The flashing...torture; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung ont from this Their Phlegethon , curls ronnd the rocks of jet That gird the gulf aronnd, in pitiless... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 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... | |
 | 1833 - 372 pages
...Marmore" of Terni. "The roar of waters ! from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice, The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing...Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulph around, in pitiless horror set. And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an... | |
 | Edward Thomas Coke - 1833 - 462 pages
...gone out on a visit into the country. CHAPTER VII. So peaceful rests without a stone, a name. POPE. The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss. BTRON. EARLY on the morning of the 21st of June, I took the steam-boat and glided rapidly down the... | |
 | Edward Thomas Coke - 1833 - 542 pages
...gone out on a visit into the country. CHAPTER VII. So peaceful rests without a stone, a name. Port. The fall of waters! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss. BYRON. EARLY on the morning of the 21st of June, I took the steam-boat, and glided rapidly down the... | |
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