Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of... English Literature of the Nineteenth Century ... - Page 329by Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 746 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Keate - 1790 - 388 pages
...you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, For ever shattered, and the same for ever ? Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength,...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once, amidst their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you... | |
| 1803 - 508 pages
...and icy dens, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks For ever shatter'd, and the same for ever ! Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength,...And who commanded, and the silence came — " Here shall the billows stiffen, and have rest?" Ye ice-falls ! ye that from yon dizzy heights Adown enormous... | |
| 1803 - 502 pages
...and icy dens, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks For ever shatter'd, and the same tur ever ! Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength,...And who commanded, and the siLence came — " Here shall the billows stiffen, and have, rest ?" Ye ice-falls ! ye that from yon dizzy heights Adown enormous... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 334 pages
...call'd you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged Rocks For ever shattered and the same for ever ? Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength,...Ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mightjr Voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless Torrents ! silent Cataracts... | |
| 1834 - 918 pages
...you forth, Down those precipitous, black, jagged rocks, For ever shattered and the same for ever ? Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength,...who commanded (and the silence came,) Here let the hillows stiffen, and have rest ? " Ye ice-falls I ye that from the mountain's hrow Adown enormous ravines... | |
| 1817 - 494 pages
...from Mr. Coleridge's little known, but sublime, * Hymn before Sun-rise in the Valley of Chamouny.' Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! \Vho made you... | |
| 1857 - 878 pages
...! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly And you, ye five wild torrents fiercely glad! Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength,...fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? " Lastly, the storm-demon is power goaded into madness. Winds, tempests, warring, bewailing, uttering... | |
| 1860 - 796 pages
...death-stricken silence — making all nature dumb, save where the distant thunder of the iceberg roars. " Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty Toice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plungo ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! " In... | |
| 1850 - 704 pages
...expressed in their own glorious language : — " Ye ice- falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow .A down enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks,...voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge f Motionless torrents t silent cataracts ! " " O'er the savage sea, The glossy ocean of the mountain-ice,... | |
| New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 pages
...shattered, and the same for ever? Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, yourfury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder, and eternal foam?...came), " Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest 1" Ye ice-falls ! Ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents,... | |
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