 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,...  Essays, political, historical and miscellaneous - Stran 12avtor: sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1817 - 628 strani
...presents a striking instance. 1 But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps,...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of snows ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 618 strani
...considered impossible. EXCURSIONS ABOUND CHAMOUNY. " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps,...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The Avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 strani
...though Empires near them fall. " Biit these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls . ., Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these... | |
 | 1818 - 764 strani
...thi-m by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, •• The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Hare pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps And throned...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche, the thunderbolt of snow,"— Even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 330 strani
...the scenes in which it leaves me : " ———— Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps,...and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits as to show How earth may pierce... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 strani
...descriptive of the scenes in which it leaves me : " • Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps,...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalancbe — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expandi the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these... | |
 | 1818 - 782 strani
...that is left in regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, " The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps...halls Of cold sublimity) where forms and falls The avalanche, the thunderbolt of snow,"— . Even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man... | |
 | 1818 - 904 strani
...nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clonds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy balls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to showHow earth may pierce... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1819 - 370 strani
...scenes in •which it leaves me : " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose, vast wall) Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 strani
...Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And thoned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit , yet appals, Gather around these... | |
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