 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 ;...  THE EDINBURGH REVIEW OF CRITICAL JOURNAL - Page 107by DAVID WILLISON - 1818Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...orisons for this suspension of disgust. LXIX. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height VV'ino cleaves the wave-worn precipice; The fall of waters! rapid as the light The [lashing mass roams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters ! where they how) and hiss, | Aad boil in... | |
 | Harriet Morton (author of Protestant vigils.) - 1829 - 626 pages
...eagles for five miles, you suddenly hear 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 foiims shaking the abyss." A brilliant rainbow magnificently circled its foaming surges, which added... | |
 | 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
...suspeusion of disgust. LZIx. The roar of waters! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave -worn precipice; The fall of waters! rapid as the light...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 Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...orisons for this suspension of disgust. LXIX. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters...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 N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...orisons for this suspension of disgust. LXIX. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters...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
...upon the '•" Cascata del Marmore" of Terni. "The roar of waters ! from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice, The fall of waters...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... | |
 | Scottish tourist - 1836 - 498 pages
...to it. If the Tourist has the hardihood he may climb the precipice, and gaze down the steep upon " The hell of waters, where they howl, and hiss. And...torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung from out this, Their Pnlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That guard the gulf around, in pitiless... | |
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