 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
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...few detaehed lines is all 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, And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt... | |
 | English essays - 1828 - 718 pages
...scientific projection of the shadows. Mm.1 Blanc. — Bulcock, Strand. This is a beautiful picture of the — " palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, •^'throned eternit;- in icy halls ' tubUmity." It ¡a taken from the vale of Chamouni, and executed... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...banks, though empires near them fall. LXIÏ. Rut these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palace« of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icv halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...few detached lines is all 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, And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, wh'ere forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt... | |
 | Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 pages
...drear, By Religion and Charity hlest; Huspitality ventures to smile even here, /• 101 THE ALPS. AEOVE me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls, Have piunacled in clouds their suowy And throned eternity, in icy halls Of cold suhlimity, where forms and... | |
 | 1830 - 540 pages
...for doing that, which cannot be well done, without a considerable degree of minuteness and prolixity. 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... | |
 | James Johnson - 1831 - 312 pages
...excited very dissimilar trains of thought in two cotemporary poets of first rate genius. 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 290 pages
...springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fail . LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alp.', 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...extend to all, Still springing o'er thy hanks, 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 throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American literature - 1832 - 278 pages
...remarkably snug" until the affair had blown over. CHAPTER X. And now I go, but go alone. — SCOTT. Above me are the Alps, ., The palaces of nature, whose...walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halls, &c. — BYEOX. " ARE you sure all my things are on board, Slowand-Easy... | |
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