 | John Wilson - 1850 - 378 pages
...Mister Buller. Buller. " The roar of waters! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the way-worn precipice; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light...from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain Is an... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - Italy - 1850 - 750 pages
...— from the headlong height Vclino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters! rapid ae the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss;...from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, And mounts in sprays the skies, and thence again... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...waters ! — from the beadlong height Velino cleaves the wave- worn precipice ; The fall of waters l rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking...from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, And mounts ln spray the skies, and thence again... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 236 pages
...still celebrated as that of Terni, or the Cascade delle Marmore. See Byron, Childe HuroUl, iv. 69 : " The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height...wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the li^ht The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss," etc. By this work the inhabitants of Reate obtained... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 592 pages
...natural beauty which brings back the splendour in the grass, the glory in the flower ! "] LXVIII. LXIX. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height...from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again... | |
 | D. Brown Anderson - Anwoth (Scotland) - 1899 - 398 pages
...words from the Book of Genesis is all sufficient in prose to describe it: " The waters prevailed." " The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; How profound the gulf ! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1899 - 332 pages
...life a moment lave it clean 610 LXVI LXIX The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino0 cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light 615 The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900 - 492 pages
...clean With Nature's baptism,— 'tis to him ye must Pay orisons for this suspension of disgust. LXIX. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height...from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX. And mounts in spray the skies, and thence... | |
 | Forenede dampskibs-selskab - 1902 - 204 pages
...mighty river leap in one bound. " ... Rapid as the light The flashing mass foams, shaking the al,yss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And...wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rooks of jet That gird the gulf around in pitiless horror set." It will be confessed, when the Dfftifoss... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...sleeps afar, Like Scipio, buried by the upbraiding shore. stanza 57. The poetry of speech. Stanza 68. The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture. Stanza eo. Then farewell Horace, whom I hated so, — Not for thy fanlts, but mine. Stanza 77. 1 See... | |
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The roar of waters!— from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture; while... 
