 | Fergus Ferguson - 1869 - 240 pages
...last chapter. Thus he represents his unhappy hero as saying, when meditating self-destruction — " Ye toppling crags of ice ! Ye avalanches, whom a breath...frequent conflict ; but ye pass, And only fall on things that still would live." "When Goethe, after the publication of the poem, hinted that the noble writer... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Fore-edge painting - 1870 - 770 pages
...plough'd by moments, not by years And hours — all tortured into ages — hours Which I outlive ! — in every change. Oh, who can tell? not thou, luxurious slave ! I hear ye momently above, beneath, [me ! Crash writh a frequent conflict ; but ye pass, And only fall... | |
 | English literature - 1871 - 612 pages
...children, You owe me no subscription.' Manfred's apostrophe is pitched in the same exalted key : — ' Ye toppling crags of ice ! Ye avalanches, whom a breath...frequent conflict ; but ye pass, And only fall on things that still would live ; On the young flourishing forest, or tie hut And hamlet of the harmless villager.'... | |
 | 1872 - 830 pages
...children, You owe me no subscription. " Manfred's apostrophe is pitched in the same exalted key : — " Ye toppling crags of ice ! Ye avalanches, whom a breath...frequent conflict ; but ye pass, And only fall on things that still would live ; On the young flourishing forest, or the hut And hamlet of the harmless villager."... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 pages
...ages—hours Which I outlive !—Ye toppling crags of ice ! Ye avalanches, whom a breath draws dawn In mountainous o'erwhelming, come and crush me ! I...frequent conflict ; but ye pass And only fall on things that still would live ; On the young flourishing forest, or the hut And hamlet of the harmless villager.... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Switzerland - 1872 - 782 pages
...In passing the masses of snow, I made a snowball, and pelted Hobhouse with it." — Swiss Journal. " Ye toppling crags of ice — Ye avalanches, whom a...down In mountainous o'erwhelming, come and crush me ! / hear ye momently abttve, beneath, Crash with a frequent conflict; bat ye pass, And only fall on... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 340 pages
...by moments, — not by years, — And hours, all tortured into ages — hours Which I outlive ! — Ye toppling crags of ice ! Ye avalanches, whom a breath...momently above, beneath, Crash with a frequent conflict ; 10 but ye pass, And only fall on things that still would live ; On the youno; flourishing forest,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1873 - 814 pages
...2. Ye toppling crags of ice ! Ye avalanches, whom a brealli draws down In mountainous overwhelming, come and crush me ! I hear ye momently above, beneath,...frequent conflict ; but ye pass, And only fall on things that still would live ; On the young flourishing forest, or the hut And hamlet of the harmless villager.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 344 pages
...— Ye toppling crags of ice I Ye avalanches, whom a breath draws down In mountainous o'erwhelmiug, come and crush me ! I hear ye momently above, beneath, • Crash with a frequent conflict ; 10 but ye pass, And only fall on things that still would live ; On the youncj flourishing forest,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1873 - 898 pages
...me of me and my family." — Siriss Journal.'] Which I outlive ! — Ye toppling crags of ice ! Te Which beckons onward to his grave, And lures to leap into the wave." * » * * * Park I hear ye momently above, beneath, Crash with a frequent conflict l ; but ye pass, And only fall on... | |
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Ye toppling crags of ice ! Ye avalanches, whom a breath draws down In mountainous o'erwhelming, come and crush me ! I hear ye momently above, beneath, Crash with a frequent conflict ; but ye pass, And only fall on things that still would live ; On the... 
