WHO first beholds those everlasting clouds, Seed-time and harvest, morning, noon and night, Still where they were, steadfast, immovable ; ' Who first beholds the Alps — that mighty chain Of Mountains, stretching on from east to west, So massive, yet... Poems [the poetical works of S.Rogers]. - Page 35by Samuel Rogers - 1845Full view - About this book
| Samuel Rogers - 1854 - 516 pages
...morning, noon and night, Still where they were, steadfast, immovable; Those mighty hills, so shadowy, so sublime, As rather to belong to Heaven than Earth...that informs him 'tis an hour, Whence he may date henceforth and for ever? To me they seemed the barriers of a World, Saying, Thus far, no further! and... | |
| Randal William McGavock - Europe - 1854 - 418 pages
...those everlasting clouds— Those mighty hills, so shadowy, so sublime, As rather to belong to heawn than earth— But instantly receives into his soul...hour Whence he may date henceforward and for ever I" Aside from the natural peculiarities of Switzerland, we were much interested in the appearance of... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1854 - 468 pages
...noon and night, Still where they were, steadfast, immovable, — Those mighty hills, so shadowy, so sublime, As rather to belong to heaven than earth,...feeling that he loses not, A something that informs him 't is an hour Whence he may date henceforward and forever ? To me they seemed the barriers of a world,... | |
| Randal William McGavock - Europe - 1854 - 412 pages
...description of the Alps : " Who first beholds those everlasting clouds— Those mighty hills, so shadowy, so sublime, As rather to belong to heaven than earth—...feeling, that he loses not—- A something that informs him'tis an hour Whence he may date henceforward and for ever ?" Aside from the natural peculiarities... | |
| Charles Williams - Alps - 1854 - 668 pages
...steadfast, iminovcablc ; Those mighty hills, so shadowy, so sublime, As rather to belong to heaven thau earth — But instantly receives into his soul A sense,...not, A something that informs him 'tis an hour Whence ho may date henceforward and for ever ! " The voyage of the Lake now performed specially prepares the... | |
| Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - American literature - 1854 - 344 pages
...Christian more loftily than in the experience of the Poet, that " high mountains are a feeling," and he " receives into his soul A sense, a feeling that he loses not, A something that informs him 'tis a moment Whence he may date henceforward and forever." And then when we look down upon the Mountains... | |
| 1854 - 378 pages
...immoveable ; Those mighty hilts, so shadowy, so sublime, As rather to belong to heaven than earthBut instantly receives into his soul A sense, a feeling,...that he loses not— A something that informs him 'lis an hour Whence he may date henceforward and for ever "' " I should fancy I slid down near 400... | |
| Gift books - 1854 - 342 pages
...Christian more loftily than in the experience of the Poet, that " high mountains are a feeling," and he " receives into his soul A sense, a feeling that he loses not, A something that informs him His a moment Whence he may date henceforward and forever." And then when we look down upon the Mountains... | |
| Charles Williams - Alps - 1854 - 662 pages
...lielong to heaven than earth But instantly receives into hie soul A sense, a feeling, that he lose« not, A something that informs him 'tis an hour Whence he may date henceforward and for ever !" The voyage of the Lake now performed specially prepares the mind for the appreciation of its impressive... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...massive, yet so shadowy, so ethereal. As to belong rather to heaven than earth — But instantly reeeives into his soul A sense, a feeling that he loses not, A something that informs him Чis a moment Whenee he may date heneeforward and forever Í * Rogrrs's Italy A herdsman on the lonely... | |
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