 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,...  Journal of School Geography - Side 2491900Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1817 - 628 sider
...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, And throned...forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of snows ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How earth... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1811 - 618 sider
...impossible. EXCURSIONS ABOUND CHAMOUNY. " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...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... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 sider
...them fall. " Biit these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls . ., Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...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... | |
 | 1818 - 764 sider
...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...falls The avalanche, the thunderbolt of snow,"— Even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were regarded by the ancients... | |
 | 1818 - 782 sider
...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...falls The avalanche, the thunderbolt of snow,"— . Even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were regarded by the ancients... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 sider
...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 throned...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalancbe — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expandi the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 330 sider
...which it leaves me : " ———— Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, 'And...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1819 - 370 sider
...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...and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits as to shew How earth may pierce... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 sider
...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 summits, as to show IIowEarlh may pierce... | |
 | Robert Charles Dallas - 1820 - 622 sider
...the big rain dancing to the earth." Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast 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 of snow ! All that... | |
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