 | Walter Scott - 1849 - 408 pages
...crowned head — But soft! Look, underneath yon jutting crag Are hunters and a slaughter'd stag. 1 [" He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above... | |
 | Law - 1853 - 732 pages
...subjected to the rivalries, the envy, the jealousy, and even the malice, ofttimes, of his opponents, but " he who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below." It is a beautiful manifestation of that vein of goodness which permeates the whole human character... | |
 | James Roche - 1851 - 624 pages
...parallel; for where could the baneful passion find such a victim, or batten on such a prey ?—But " He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. ****** Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head; And thus reward... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1851 - 352 pages
...waste With its own flickering, or a sword laid by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. XLV. He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1852 - 1034 pages
...head. " He who ascends to mountain tope shall find The loMiest peaks most wrapt with clouds and mow , He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down...on the hate of those below, Though high above the snn of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round are icy rocks, and londly blow... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1852 - 150 pages
...— "He who ascends the mountain top shall find Its loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below : Though far above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread. Round him are icy rocks,... | |
 | United States. Congress - Politicians - 1852 - 148 pages
...— "He who ascends the mountain top shall find Its loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below : Though far above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread. Round him are icy rocks,... | |
 | United States. 32d Cong., 1st sess - Legislators - 1852 - 154 pages
...poet— "He who ascends the mountain top shall find Its loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below: Though far above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread. Round him are icy rocks,... | |
 | Henrietta Dumont - Flower language - 1852 - 330 pages
...turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. Shakspeare. He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above... | |
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He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean... 
