 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 Foreign Review - Page 1371830Full view - About this book
 | Hugh William Williams - Greece - 1820 - 462 pages
...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...That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, " And mounts in spray the skies ; and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With... | |
 | English literature - 1840 - 614 pages
...the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light, The flashing mass foams, shafting the abyss, The hell of waters ! where they howl and...That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set. And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shakmg the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and...sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlcgcthon, cur's round the rocks of jet That gird the golf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX. And... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - Canada - 1822 - 132 pages
...waters from the headlong height, Velino, cleaves the way-worn precipice; The fall of waters, rapid at the light, The flashing mass foams, shaking the abyss,...rocks of jet, That gird the gulf around in pitiless horrors set." " And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - England - 1822 - 222 pages
...you to accept his appropriate and poetic imagery, ininstead of my humble prose: " The fall of waters! rapid as the light, The flashing mass foams, shaking the abyss; The hell of waters! where they bowl and hiss, And boil iu endless torture; while the sweat Of their great agony, rung out from this... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave- worn precipice : The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking...That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - History - 1824 - 532 pages
...waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave- worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking...endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, rung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet . That gird the gulph around, in... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...for this suspension of disgust. LXiX. LXV1L The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And hoil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great...That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX. And mounts in spray the skies, and thenee again Returns in an uneeasing shower, which round, With... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - Canada - 1824 - 530 pages
...worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the ahyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss And...endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, rung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulph around, in pitiless... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1825 - 504 pages
...waters ! — from the headlong height, Velino cleaves the wave worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light, The flashing mass foams, shaking...That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set. In aiming at sublimity, Byron here produces only conceptions of disgust and horror. He applies images... | |
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