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... The Monthly magazine - Seite 495von Monthly literary register - 1821Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Robert Montgomery Martin - 1844 - 388 Seiten
...air. How beautifully does Byron depict such a scene when adverting to the far lesser fall of Velino1! The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice j The fall of waters ! rapid as the light, The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of... | |
| Thomas Roscoe - 1844 - 514 Seiten
...Terni; they echo the spirit voices that we seem to hear around us in such a scene. ABERYSTWITII. 17 " The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice j The fall of waters I — rapid as the light ; The flashing mass foams, shaking the abyss ; The hell... | |
| Journal - 1844 - 296 Seiten
...tasted food for eighteen hours. CHAPTER IV. " The fall of waters rapid as (he light, The flashing man foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and bin. And boil in endlen torture." 4th June. I took my departure from Toronto for Niagara at seven AM... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 Seiten
...its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth. THE CATARACT OF VELINO. The roar of waters! — from the headlong height Velino...hiss, And boil in endless torture; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird... | |
| Joel Tyler Headley - 1845 - 240 Seiten
...feet, making in all about 1,000 feet — and then refer you to Byron's description, beginning — " The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height...hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird... | |
| 1907 - 516 Seiten
...eu breichian tua'r nef." Gwrandawer ar Byron — " Tne roar of waters — from the headlong height The fall of waters, rapid as the light, The flashing...where they howl and hiss And boil in endless torture." Dyna ddisgrifiad о enaid Byron, "It boiled in endless torture." Eto " Far along From peak to peak,... | |
| Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta - 1846 - 366 Seiten
...of Indian origin expressively denotes. " The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Niagara cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters...hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegelhon curls round the rocks of jot That gird the... | |
| 1846 - 472 Seiten
...with headlong fury over the rocky obstacles, now meandering through grassy meadows, and at length " cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light — The flashing mass fuanis, shaking the abyss," and continues its winding course onward until emptied into the bosom of... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 Seiten
...— 'tis to him ye must Pay orisons for this suspension of disgust. * LXDC. The roar of waters I — Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird... | |
| William Barham - 1847 - 196 Seiten
...applies admirably to this matchless scene : " The roar of waters ! From the headlong height Niagara cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters...hiss, And boil in endless torture; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird... | |
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