...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...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche - the thunderbolt of snows ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these...

...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...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The Avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! • All that expands the spirit, yet appals. Gather around...

...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...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these...

...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...

...travellers may well record their names with gratiuule. But I must close this letter. Some lines of «fcord Byron occur to me as admirably descriptive of the...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...

...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...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...

...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...

...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...

...all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. D2 LXII. *« But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these...

...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...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these...