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,... Poetical Sketches of the South of France - Page 92by Benjamin Bailey - 1831 - 119 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1817 - 628 pages
...power, and beauty hev describes. The following stanza presents a striking instance. 1 But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...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... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - Switzerland - 1811 - 618 pages
...for ever." — Rogers. It was such a prospect that inspired those remarkable lines of Byron : — " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...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... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...extend to all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. " Biit these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose.... ., Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt... | |
| English literature - 1816 - 692 pages
...o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. A race of faces happy as the scene, " But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls And tbrorifed Eternity in icy_ halls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps. The avalanche—the... | |
| Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 pages
...lines of Lord Byron occur to me as admirably descriptive of the scenes in which it leaves me : " • Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose...walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalancbe — the thunderbolt... | |
| Thomas Raffles - Europe - 1818 - 330 pages
...«fcord Byron occur to me as admirably descriptive of the scenes in which it leaves me : " ———— Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose...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... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...extend to all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...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... | |
| Robert Charles Dallas - 1820 - 622 pages
...lakes into phosphoric seas," and with the sounds of his lyre set " the big rain dancing to the earth." Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy hallii Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...here extend to all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though empires near them f LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...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... | |
| John Watkins - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...brought to the vicinity of the Alps; and here the author is in his element. These mighty hills are — ' 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... | |
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