To the broad column which rolls on, and shows More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world, than only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale: —... Italy, illustrated and described - Page 531864Full view - About this book
| 1818 - 638 pages
...to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, jhrough the vale : — Look back ! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep...dread, — a matchless cataract, Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal... | |
| 1843 - 636 pages
...thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings through the vale. Look back, Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep...dread, — a matchless cataract, Horribly beautiful! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn An Iris sits, amidst the infernal... | |
| England - 1849 - 802 pages
...to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly With many windings, through the vale; — Look back : Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its traok, Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract, " Horribly beantiful ! but on the verge,... | |
| 1818 - 574 pages
...to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale t — Look back ! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep...Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract. (P. 36—38.) The image presented us of ancient Rome is full of moral magnificence, and with this we... | |
| 1818 - 498 pages
...rivers which flow gushingly, Wilh many windings, through the vale:— Look back! Lo ! where it comet like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in...dread; — a matchless cataract, Horribly beautiful! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal... | |
| Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 520 pages
...be Parent of rive», which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale :—Look back ! Io ; where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread,—a matchless cataract, " Horribly beautiful ! hot on the verge, From side to side, beneath... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through tho vale :— Look back! Lo! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep...Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract, 37 LXXII. Horribly beautiful! but on the verge,' From side to side , beneath the glittering morn, An... | |
| Hugh William Williams - Greece - 1820 - 462 pages
...thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings thro' the vale : Look back ! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity ! As if to sweep...dread, — a matchless cataract " Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal... | |
| English literature - 1846 - 522 pages
...THE BACKWOODS. BY CAPTAIN LEVINGE. (CONCLUDED.) CHAP. XIII. UPPEK CANADA — NIAGARA. .... Look back! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity As if to sweep...with dread, a matchless cataract, Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits amidst the infernal... | |
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