...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...

...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...

...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 gratitude. But I must close this letter. Some lines of Lord Byron occur to me as admirably descriptive of the...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalancbe — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expandi the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these...

...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...

...nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clonds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy balls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the...spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to showHow earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below.'' p 3G. At length he arrives on the borders...

...extend to all, Still springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...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...

...lakes into phosphoric seas," and with the sounds of his lyre set " the big rain dancing to the earth." Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose...clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy hallii Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that...