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 Eagle: A Magazine - Page 71859Full view - About this book
| Journal - 1844 - 280 pages
...breakfast, to which I did ample justice, as I had not tasted food for eighteen hours. CHAPTER IV. " The fall of waters rapid as the light, The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss; The bell of waters ! where they howl and hiss. And boil in endless torture." 4th June. I took my departure... | |
| Thomas Roscoe - 1844 - 514 pages
...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... | |
| Robert Montgomery Martin - 1844 - 388 pages
...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... | |
| Journal - 1844 - 296 pages
...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... | |
| Joel Tyler Headley - 1845 - 240 pages
...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...from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set." I will merely add by way of comment that this... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 pages
...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...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... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 312 pages
...CATARACT OF VELINO. The roar of waters! — from the headlong height Telino cleaves the wave- worn precipice ; The fall of waters! rapid as the light...great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curia round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, And mounts in spray... | |
| 1907 - 516 pages
...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 pages
...of Indian origin expressively denotes. " The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Niagara cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters...sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegelhon curls round the rocks of jot That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, And mounts... | |
| 1846 - 472 pages
...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... | |
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