...man might stride. The torrent in descending towards it rushes and boils among the hard rocks — " The fall of waters, rapid as the light, The flashing mass foams, thaking the abyss " — and, by the aid of the small stones which it whirls along with it, has scooped...

...me read to you the following passage from Lord Byron, descriptive of the Cataract of Velino : — " The roar of waters !— from the headlong height Velino...sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlcgethon, curls round the rocks of jet That guard the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, " And...

...unrivaled description of Velino : " The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height [Taughannock] cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters...great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curled round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, "An,d mounts in spray...

...clean With Nature's baptism, — 'tis to him ye must Pay orisons for this suspension of disgust. T.YTT. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height...rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking tho abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the...

...fearful gulf, whose rocky pavement checked the rash leap of " Lucifer," stares him in the face ! " The roar of waters ! from the headlong height Velino...fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass forms, shaking the ahyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture...

...Titlis." The meadows around it are of the brightest green, THE DEVIL'S BRIDGE, ON THE ST. GOTHARD ROAD. " The fall of waters ! rapid as the light, The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of water* 1 where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony,...

...clean With Nature's baptism, — 'tis to him ye must Pay orisons for this suspension of disgust. LXIX. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height...cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters 1 rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl...

...Titlis." The meadows around it are of the brightest green, THE DEVIL'S BRIDGE, ON THE ST. GOTHARD ROAD. "The fall of waters! rapid as the light, The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss j The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their...

...around it are of the brightest green, THE DEVIL'S BRIDGE, ON THE ST. GOTHARD ROAD. "The fall of water* ! rapid as the light, The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters I where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their Rreat agony, wrung...

...Indian garotter. civ. THE roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave- worn, precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light, The flashing mass shaking the abyss ; Then mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower,...