| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! ordon Byron : lint every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, back to... | |
| English literature - 1842 - 416 pages
...? Here, we think, it must be allowed that Byron the coxcomb was too strong for Byron the poet — " Far along From peak to peak, the rattling crags among...shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud. And this is in the night 1 Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...with St. Preux, and mixing the man and the book. Went again as far al Chillón, to revisit the little From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps...shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! хеш. And this is In the night : — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let... | |
| John Murray - 1842 - 482 pages
...strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling cragi among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud,...shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! Now, where the swift Rhone cleaves his way between Heights which appear as lovers who have parted... | |
| William Wood (of Eyam.) - Eyam (England) - 1842 - 176 pages
...without premeditation the words " Jura," and "joyous Alps," to "Mam Tor," and "Sir William high"— " Far along From peak to peak, the rattling crags among...cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Mam Tor answers, through her misty shroud, Back to Sir William high, who calls to her aloud." Drenched... | |
| Trip - 1842 - 466 pages
...real danger, reminding us forcibly of Byron's sublime description of a thunder-storm among the Alps. Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among...cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue. * ' • • * * Now where the quick stream hath cleft his way, The mightiest of the storms hath ta'en... | |
| Ralph Willard Allen - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 216 pages
...these peaks are covered with eternal snows, and below them is often seen to burst the storm, while " Far along From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder," which is heard a great distance beneath the traveller's feet. These peaks stand, for the most part... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 360 pages
...too, at the very moment when the soul in its emotion of grandeur was desiring nothing but the truth. From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder" " Far along, is glorious; but, alas! how could the same man who said that say Of the loud hills shakes... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is Ihe light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among...shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud! And this is in the night: — Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be A sharer... | |
| Baptists - 1837 - 658 pages
...of nature, is sensual delight ? Take Byron's description of a thunder-storm amidst the Alps; when " Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,...mountain now hath found a tongue ; And Jura answers, from her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! " Who ever read that magnificent... | |
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