...honour of that distinction to Manfred. Here is a specimen of downright bombast. " Above me are the Alps The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forme and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow !" Canto IIl. 63. Another instance of the...

...the pursuit of power. ' " And leave us leisure to be good."— Gray THE ALPS. ABOVE me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And thron'd Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt...

...The palnces of nature, whose vast walls II iv pinnncled in cluiids their snowy scalps, And ttironed eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolts of anow." Even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man can behold, were...

...grand, these mighty regions ? What said the wandering Harold when he viewed them ? — " The Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...and falls The Avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce...

...scenes of Switzerland. The opening is of suitable grandeur. " But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce...

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...is absorbed in the view of the mountains, — "Alps on Alps in clusters swelling!" and amid those " Palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity—" one feels as if shut in from all common-place associations and sources of pleasure, and constrained...

...to recover the body was considered impossible. EXCUBSIONS ABOUND CHAMOUNT. " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...their snowy scalps, ; And throned Eternity in icy hails Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The Avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow! All that...

...Have pinnacled in clouds their «nowy sca'.pi, And thronet) Eternity in icy halls Of cold cublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow 1 All that expands the spirit, yet appals. Gather around these summits, as tu »how How earth may pierce to heaven, yet lekve vaÎD man...

...springing o'er thy banks, though Empires near them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow I All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show [below. How Earth...