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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,... "
An Historical and Critical Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Right ... - Page 288
by John Watkins - 1822 - 427 pages
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 278 pages
...sight? is all that is left In regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, "The palaces o( nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds...forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of suow,'1 — even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were regarded by...
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Switzerland: Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken Expressly for ..., Volume 1

William Henry Bartlett, William Beattie - Switzerland - 1836 - 368 pages
...imponente, niente di piu sentimentale che il passaggio detto del T£ce Noire! " " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...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!"...
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The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most ...

Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1836 - 774 pages
...slow. Snowdon ! mark, 'tis magic's hour ; Now the mutter'd spell has power ; * Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls, Have pinnacled...throned eternity in icy halls, Of cold sublimity." CHILD HAROLD. CANT. I. f Gray seems to have been much pleased with these lines. Speaking of the advantages...
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The Schoolmaster: Essays on Practical Education, Selected from the ..., Volume 1

Education - 1836 - 502 pages
...rich, luxuriant mould ; the rocky hill, shorn of its verdant glories ; and the towering mountains, " Whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy...throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity," — are the displays of that power whose agents have broken-down the solid barriers of earth, and scattered...
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The Schoolmaster: Essays on Practical Education, Selected from the Works of ...

Schoolmaster - 1836 - 926 pages
...mould ; the rocky hill, shorn of its verdant glories ; and the towering mountains, " Whose vast walla Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps. And throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity," — are the displays of that power whose agents have broken down the solid barriers of earth, and scattered...
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The Young Lady's Book of Elegant Prose: Comprising Selections from the Works ...

American literature - 1836 - 342 pages
...in regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, " The piilaces of nature, whose vast waUs Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halls Of cald sublimity, where forms and fulls , The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow " — even these,...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 10

American periodicals - 1837 - 594 pages
...for we were now coming where nature displays some of her wildest scenes : ' Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche, the ihunder-boh of snow! All that expands the spirit yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 352 pages
...throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold suhlimity, where forms and falls The avalanehe — the thunderholt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals,...How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man helow. 1 [On taking Hockheim, the Austrians, in one part of the engagement, got to the hrow of the...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 10

American periodicals - 1837 - 580 pages
...displays some of her wildest scenes : • 'Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walla Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned...sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche, the thunder-boll of snow! All that expands the spirit yet appui*, Gather around those summits, as to show...
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Impressions at home and abroad; or, A year of real life

James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1837 - 716 pages
...conveys better the idea of splendour; or I should use it. Before, beside, behind me are — " The Alps The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity." As the eye looks first into the depths of the glen some six thousand feet below, and then the sight,...
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