 | William Darby - 1828 - 356 pages
...his imagery would not have more vividly pourtrayed this scene, whose parts a poet alone can describe. "The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height,...wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round their rocks of jet, That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, And mounts in spray the skies,... | |
 | George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...powerful, and the most beautiful, that has perhaps ever been given in this or in any other language : The roar of waters! — from the headlong height Velino...hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of theihgreat agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 780 pages
...orisons for this suspension of disgust. LXIX. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height VV'ino cleaves the wave-worn precipice; The fall of waters! rapid as the light The [lashing mass roams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters ! where they how) and hiss, | Aad boil in... | |
 | Harriet Morton (author of Protestant vigils.) - 1829 - 626 pages
...Nera, into which the Velino falls; and, after soaring with the eagles for five miles, you suddenly hear the •• Roar of waters ! from the headlong height...fall of waters rapid as the light, The flashing? mass foiims shaking the abyss." A brilliant rainbow magnificently circled its foaming surges, which added... | |
 | 1830 - 570 pages
...the poet Lentz — ' Here is a Waterhell !' is identical with Lord Byron's « Hell of Waters !' • The roar of waters from, the headlong height, Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of wafers ! rapid as the light ; The flashing mass foams, shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 358 pages
...suspeusion of disgust. LZIx. The roar of waters! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave -worn precipice; The fall of waters! rapid as the light...torture; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung ont from this Their Phlegethon , curls ronnd the rocks of jet That gird the gulf aronnd, in pitiless... | |
 | Edward Thomas Coke - 1833 - 462 pages
...gone out on a visit into the country. CHAPTER VII. So peaceful rests without a stone, a name. POPE. The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss. BTRON. EARLY on the morning of the 21st of June, I took the steam-boat and glided rapidly down the... | |
 | Edward Thomas Coke - 1833 - 542 pages
...gone out on a visit into the country. CHAPTER VII. So peaceful rests without a stone, a name. Port. The fall of waters! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss. BYRON. EARLY on the morning of the 21st of June, I took the steam-boat, and glided rapidly down the... | |
 | Scottish tourist - 1836 - 498 pages
...to it. If the Tourist has the hardihood he may climb the precipice, and gaze down the steep upon " The hell of waters, where they howl, and hiss. And...torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung from out this, Their Pnlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That guard the gulf around, in pitiless... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 356 pages
...verses in our language of happier descriptive power than the two stanzas which characterise the LXIX. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height...sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Plilegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, UOL And... | |
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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 foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ;... 
