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...Still springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. A race of faces happy as the scene, " But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls And tbrorifed Eternity in icy_ halls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps. The avalanche—the...

...springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. " But these recede. Above me are the Alps, i' The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls And throned Eternity in icy halls The avalanche—the thunderbolt...

...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...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...

...lines of Lord Byron occur to me as admirably descriptive of the scenes in which it leaves me : " • Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalancbe — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expandi the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these...

...«fcord Byron occur to me as admirably descriptive of the scenes in which it leaves me : " ———— 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 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...eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falle sense which He entertained of the beauty even of the minutest of the works of nature. If the...

...Have pinnacled in donde their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy hall» Of cold snbliraity, where forms and falls The avalanche— the thunderbolt...! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather urouud these buramits, as to show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below/ p. 36....

...heart ! . . . . What was it ?..... the Wild Mountain! Elodia was in the midst of high mountains ; — " The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gathers around their summits, as to show How earth may...

...Byron's just description of ' Those palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds Uieir snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halls Of...— the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirits, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to shew, How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave...