 Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates...  Selections for Oral Reading - Page 96edited by - 1914 - 326 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...line which expresses the optical appearance, rather than the philosophical truth. " Ye ice-falls 1 ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty Voice, And stupp'd at once amid their maddest plunge! — Motionless torrents ! Silent cataracts ! Who made you... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...— His own invented torments." 2. — Poetic Apostrophe. [FROM COLERIDGE'S HYMN TO MONT BLAHC.] " Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe... | |
 | 1849 - 612 pages
...return home, I was delighted to find the forgotten idea expressed in their own glorious language : ' Ye ice-falls, ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts !'* O'er the savage sea The glassy ocean of the mountain ice, We skim its rugged breakers, which put... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 320 pages
...— His own invented torments." 2. — Poetic Apostrophe. [FROM COLERIDGE'S HYMN TO MONT BLANC.] " Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe... | |
 | 1849 - 586 pages
...for ever ? Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? And who commanded...Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest" ? Ye ice falls ! ye that from the mountain brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain, Torrents, methinks,... | |
 | David Purdie Thomson - 1849 - 516 pages
...to sudden fracture. 230. Mist-cap of the iceberg. 240. Physical properties of ice. " Ye icy-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 pages
...life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, * Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? 45 And who commanded, — and the silence came, — "...— Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, 50 And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! » Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! —... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pages
...strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? And who commanded—and the silence came— " Here let the billows stiffen,...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious... | |
 | sir John Forbes - 1850 - 388 pages
...return home, I was delighted to find the forgotten idea expressed in their own glorious language : " Ye ice-falls, ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts !"f -O'er the savage sea, The glassy ocean of the mountain ice, We skim its rugged breakers, which... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...forever 1 Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder, and eternal foam '! And who commanded...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious... | |
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