 Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a deathbed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its...  Descriptions of Niagara: Selected from Various Travellers, with Original ... - Page 34by William Barham - 1847 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1834 - 656 pages
...only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale : — look back ! lo ! where it comes like an eternity,...side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits,* amidst the infernal surge, Like hope upon a death-betl, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around... | |
 | 1835 - 404 pages
...Harolde," associated as it is with one of the most beautiful exhibitions of nature or of poetry ! "Lol where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down...to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett, William Beattie - 1836 - 374 pages
...his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent To the broad column that rolls on." . . . . " Look back ! • Lo, where it comes like an eternity,...Charming the eye with dread — a matchless cataract !" From 1757, down to the period of its destruction in 1799, the Bridge of Schaffhausen was justly... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, [back ! With many windings, through the vale : — Look » Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep...Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract, (J) Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett, William Beattie - 1836 - 368 pages
...With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent To the broad column that rolls on." .... " Look back ! Lo, where it comes like an eternity, As...down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread—a matchless cataract!" From 1757, down to the period of its destruction in 1799, the Bridge... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 352 pages
...to he Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale : — Look hack ! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep...Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract, l Lxx1L Horrihly heautiful ! hut on the verge, From side to side, heneath the glittering morn, An Iris... | |
 | Robert Burford - 1837 - 100 pages
...only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale : — Look back ! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity,...down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread—a matchless cataract, " Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...rivers, which flow gushingly, [hack! \\iih many \\ii:<litig-s, through the vale. — Look Lo! wbere hen an easier prey ; But once cut oil — the remnant of bis band Emba Cbraing tbe eye \viih dread, — a matchless cataract,(l) Horribly beautiful! but on the verge, Frcta... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...With many windings, through the va!e. — Look Lo! where it comes like an eternity, As if to >weep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataLXXII. Horribly beautiful! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 932 pages
...the milder discipline of her riper age. NIAGARA. '-' Look back ! Lo ! where it comes like an etcmitv, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread !" Byron. IT is not nay intention to describe what we saw at Niagara, so much as to relate what we... | |
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