 | James Johnson - 1831 - 312 pages
...trains of thought in two cotemporary poets of first rate genius. BYRON — . Above me are the ALPS, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to shew How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave mean man below. CAMPBELL — Afar, Where ANDES, Giant... | |
 | Benjamin Bailey - 1831 - 138 pages
...description of this river among the mountains of Switzerland. I could not say — " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps." But we often found ourselves in spots upon the banks of this splendid stream, which is thus beautifully... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...springing o'er thy hanks, though empires near them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below. , LXIII. But ere these matchless heights I dare to scan, There is a spot should not be pass'd in vain,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...springing o'er thy banks, though empires near them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below. LXII1. Bnt ere these matchless heights 1 dare to scan, There is a spot should not be pass'd in vain,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1832 - 278 pages
...affair had blown over. CHAPTER X. And now I go, but go alone. — SCOTT. Above me are the Alps, ., The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halls, &c. — BYEOX. " ARE you sure all my things are on board, Slowand-Easy ?" asked Mr. Green, as he stood... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1832 - 330 pages
...rich, luxuriant mould : the rocky hill, shorn of its verdant glories ; and the towering mountains, " Whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy...And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity" — are the displays of that power, whose agents have broken down the solid barriers of earth, and... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1832 - 330 pages
...rich, luxuriant mould ; the rocky hill, shorn of its verdant glories ; and the towering mountains, " Whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy...And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity" — are the displays of that power, whose agents have broken down the solid barriers of earlIi, and... | |
 | James Bell - 1832 - 622 pages
...heights towards the lower countries of Europe. These are, to use the words of a late illustrious poet, ' The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And tbroned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1832 - 328 pages
...rich, luxuriant mould ; the rocky hill, shorn of its verdant glories ; and the towering mountains, •' Whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halts Of cold sublimity"— are the displays of that power, whose agents have broken down the solid... | |
 | William Brockedon - 1833 - 438 pages
...enrich them, in his " Manfred," and in the third canto of " Childe Harold. " " Above us are the Alps — The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below !" Chamouni, from the immense number of its English visitors, appears to be a goal the next in ton,... | |
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Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit,... 
