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...extend to all, Still springingo'er thy banks, though empires near them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits,...

...banks, though Empires near tliemfall. But these recede. Above me are the Alpi, The palaces of \ature, . [They bring water — he drinks. I lire again— from henceforth The goblet I reserve j The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, j Gather around...

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...here extend to all, VI springing o'er thy bauk\ though empires near them fall. LXII. But these recede. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their suowy scalps. And throned eternity in icy h.nl-. Of cold suMtniitv, where forms and falls The malanche...

...(partly of stone, partly of wood) thrown over this river, we beheld some of the grandest of scenery : " Above me are the Alps " The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls " Have pinnacled in the clouds their suowy scalps, " And thron'd eternity in icy halls " Of cold sublimity." The sun was...

...eye," if not present to his " bodily sense," when he conceived and penned those noble lines : — " Above me are the Alps, The palaces of nature, whose...that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around those summits, as to show How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below." All here was still,...

...few detaehed lines is all that is left in regard to them by the Roman poets. The Alps themselves, " The palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled...halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow,"— even these, the most glorious objects which the eye of man...

...scientific projection of the shadows. Mont Blanc. — Bulcock, Strand. This is a beautiful picture of the — " palaces of nature, whose vast walls Have...throned eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity." It is taken from the vale of Chamounr, and executed with great accuracy and effect, by William Delamotte,...