 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 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...And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche, the thunderbolt of snow;" even these, the most glorious objects... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - France - 1848 - 400 pages
...increase of the glaciers, and on the avalanches, which show that he carefully explored "The Alps Those palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity." On the evening of the 29th of August, 1793, after toiling all day up a zigzag road, carrying their... | |
 | Belgium - 1851 - 478 pages
...chef-d'oeuvre of Xeuxis, all perishable objects within the cella. CORMAYOR, VALLEY OF AOSTE. ITALY. " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow '." BYKON. ENCLOSED by barriers of... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...foeman's eye — His volley speeds, and Albert — Albert — falls! the dear old father bleeds! 346. Above me are the Alps, the palaces of Nature, whose...and throned Eternity in icy halls of cold sublimity, where forms and falls the avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! 347. Now, now, the secret I implore;... | |
 | 1849 - 354 pages
...of which Moses spake when he said, " Tlie Spirit of God moved upon the face of tJie great deep." " The Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls...And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and fulls The avalanche—the thunderholt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 746 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...And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow, — " Even these, the most glorious... | |
 | Mrs. Houstoun (Matilda Charlotte) - United States - 1850 - 644 pages
...miniature republic of the Old World, the ' land of mountains and of lakes.' It is true there were no — Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have...their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls. But still the spot we were in reminded us most forcibly of a Swiss valley, and it only wanted the distant... | |
 | Alfred Richard Sennett - Great Saint Bernard Pass (Italy and Switzerland) - 1904 - 608 pages
...nearing the mountain chain, that before and " Above us are the Alps, Tln.- palaces of Nature, whoso 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, yet appals,... | |
 | Alfred Biese - Nature - 1905 - 398 pages
...rude, awful yet not austere, Is to the mellow earth as autumn to the year. and far more the Alps : Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche, the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1905 - 1088 pages
...springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. LXII Bnt these recede. Above me are the Alps, 59o r, is not my primary" vocation ; to divert the dull momenta where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet... | |
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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,... 
