 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
 | William Beattie - 1838 - 336 pages
...shifting masses of spray, frequently illumined with the bright and. lambent tints of the rainbow.* " But on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An iris sits amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed ; and, unworn It steady dyes, whilst all around... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 pages
...there is a deal of waxwork, in which * » •I ' Look back ! Lo 1 where It comes like an eternity, Ai If to sweep down all things in Its track. Charming...dread — a matchless cataract Horribly beautiful I" — Ckilde HaroM, c. IT. st. 71 . j 1 [" ^— " The purest god of gentle waters ! And most serene... | |
 | Hobart Caunter - 1839 - 590 pages
...than 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, As if to sweep down all things in its tract, Charming the eye with dread—a matchless cataract, Horribly beautiful! but on the verge From... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1840 - 388 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,...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... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1840 - 336 pages
...to be 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...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1840 - 302 pages
...to be Parent of rivere, which flow gushingly, With many windings through the vale :— Look back I Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep...dread, — a matchless cataract, " Horribly beautiful I but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn. An Iris sits, amidst the infernal... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1840 - 366 pages
...fall of which Byron has given such an impassioned description ; in the course of which he exclaims, "'Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep...Charming the eye with dread — a matchless cataract.' But all of these, and many others that might be named, are worthy of note on account of their height... | |
 | 1840 - 210 pages
...horribly'-Ceantifue" seene ; but when he aetually sees it where, like the eataraet of Velino, " It eomes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its truek, Charming the eye with dread," — then gushes forth the fountain of true rapture, sublime, inexpressible... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 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,...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... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1841 - 390 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,...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... | |
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