 Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends; Where roll'd the ocean, thereon was his home; Where a blue sky, and glowing clime, extends, He had the passion and the power to roam; The desert, forest, cavern, breaker's foam, Were unto him companionship;...  Childe Harold's pilgrimage, a romaunt - Page 244by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826Full view - About this book
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1872 - 500 pages
...his intense love of Nature : — " Where rose the mountains, these to him were friends ; Where rolled the ocean, thereon was his home ; Where a blue sky...breaker's foam, Were unto him companionship; they spoke A mutual language, clearer than the tome Of his land's tongue, which he would oft forsake Fir... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 pages
...his intense love of Nature : — "Where rose the mountains, these to him were friends; Where rolled the ocean, thereon was his home ; Where a blue sky...breaker's foam, Were unto him companionship ; they spoke A mutual language, clearer than the tome Of his land's tongue, which he would oft forsake For... | |
 | England - 1872 - 864 pages
...world. " Where rose the mountains, there to him were frieads ; * Where rolled the ocean, thereon wa» his home; Where a blue sky, and glowing clime, extends,...and the power to roam : The desert, forest, cavern, breaker'» foam, 1872.] A Century of Great Poets. [July Were nnto him companionship ; they spake A... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 336 pages
...itself, to breathe without mankind. Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends ; Where roll'd the ocean, thereon was his home ; Where a blue sky,...tongue, which he would oft forsake For Nature's pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake. XIV. Like the Chaldean, he could watch the stars, Till he had peopled... | |
 | George W. Pine - History - 1873 - 534 pages
...with your being here at all.' " " Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends ; "Where rolled the ocean, thereon was his home^ Where a blue sky...cavern, breaker's foam, Were unto him companionship." As there are many who throng the highway of elevating and refining pleasure, in Spring and Summer,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 332 pages
...itself, to breathe without mankind. Where rose the mountaius, there to him were friends ; Where roll'd the ocean, thereon was his home ; Where a blue sky, and glowing elime, extends, He had the passion and the power to roam ; The desert, forest, cavem, breaker's foam,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...find No art? • SIR R. BLACKMORE. Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends ; Where roll'd the ocean, thereon was his home; Where a blue sky...companionship; they spake A mutual language, clearer than the tone Of his land's tongue, which he would oft forsake For nature's pages glazed by sunbeams on the... | |
 | James Mason Hutchings - California - 1875 - 312 pages
...Photograph, by CL Wttd. CHAPTEK IV. " Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends ; Where rolled the ocean, thereon was his home; Where a blue sky...and the power to roam; The desert, forest, cavern, breakers' foam, Were unto him companionship." ChUde Harold. "If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows,... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - Criticism - 1876 - 368 pages
...a feeling " ; and that mountain and wood and sky spake ' ' A mutual language, clearer than the tone Of his land's tongue, which he would oft forsake For Nature's pages, glassed by sunbeams on the lake." And hence Wordsworth tells us that Liberty has two voices : " One... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1877 - 234 pages
...to breathe without mankind. XIII Where rose the mountains,1 there to him were friends ; Where rolled the ocean, thereon was his home ; Where a blue sky,...extends, He had the passion and the power to roam ; 1 Mountain scenery was with Byron a passion, from the time when, as a child, he visited the Highlands... | |
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