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" 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 107
by DAVID WILLISON - 1818
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Letters from Italy

Joel Tyler Headley - 1845 - 240 pages
...waterfall I was struck with the power of a poetic imagination to impersonate every thing. Byron says, " While the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from...this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet," &e. And sure enough, there it is — the " sweat of their great agony." The snray, condensing on the...
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The Complete Works of Lord Byron: Reprinted from the Last London Ed ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...orisons for this suspension of disgust, (4) 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...
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The Rhode-Island Book: Selections in Prose and Verse, from the Writings of ...

Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - 1846 - 366 pages
...of Indian origin expressively denotes. " The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Niagara cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters...sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegelhon curls round the rocks of jot That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, And mounts...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 11

1846 - 472 pages
...with headlong fury over the rocky obstacles, now meandering through grassy meadows, and at length " cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light — The flashing mass fuanis, shaking the abyss," and continues its winding course onward until emptied into the bosom of...
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The Works of Lord Byron, Including the Suppressed Poems: Also a Sketch of ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 848 pages
...fiashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; Tbe hell of waters ! where they howl and 1иня, And boil m d meet those mutual eyes, Since upon nights so sweet such awful morn could rise ? Phlcgethon, curls round the rocks of jet -ai gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX. And...
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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: Complete in One Volume

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...orisons for this suspension of disgust. * LXDC. The roar of waters I — from the headlong height Velino LXX. And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66

1849 - 844 pages
...Gentlemen, I call on Mister Bnller. BULLER. " The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters...shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl aud his?, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66

1849 - 812 pages
...light The flashing nia.<s foams shaking the abyps ; The hell ot waters ! where they howl and hies, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their...wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the roeks of jet That gird the gulf around, iu pitiless horror eet, " And mounts in spray the skies, and...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66

1849 - 822 pages
...Gentlemen, I call on Mister Buller. BtTIXEB. " The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters...light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The nell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great...
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Dies Boreales: Or Christopher Under Canvass

John Wilson - 1850 - 378 pages
...Mister Buller. Buller. " The roar of waters! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the way-worn precipice; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light...That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald...
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