 Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge!  Recollections of a Literary Life - Page 392by Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 558 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Purdie Thomson - 1849 - 516 pages
...to sudden fracture. 230. Mist-cap of the iceberg. 240. Physical properties of ice. " Ye icy-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1849 - 344 pages
...dark firs, on the side of an opposite mountain. I thought of nothing but a glacier, of course. • Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made...as the gates of Heaven, Beneath the keen full moon ? "What could it be ? An icy pinnacle on the glacier of Bossons ? There is one that looks like the... | |
 | 1849 - 586 pages
...invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? And who commanded (and the silence came) " Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest" ? Ye ice falls ! ye that from the mountain brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain, Torrents, methinks,... | |
 | 1849 - 604 pages
...return home, I was deb'gbted to find the forgotten idea expressed in their own glorious language : ' Ye ice-falls, ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, inethinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 pages
...life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, * Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? 45 And who commanded, — and the silence came, — "...— Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, 50 And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! » Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! —... | |
 | sir John Forbes - 1850 - 388 pages
...return home, I was delighted to find the forgotten idea expressed in their own glorious language : " Ye ice-falls, ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts !"f -O'er the savage sea, The glassy ocean of the mountain ice, We skim its rugged breakers, which... | |
 | Walter McLeod - 1850 - 170 pages
...strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? And who commanded—and the silence came— " Here let the billows stiffen,...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious... | |
 | 1850 - 654 pages
...entranced Calvin; and had he ever embodied his sentiments in poetry, it would probably have been thus— " Motionless torrents! silent cataracts ! Who made you...as the gates of heaven Beneath the keen, full moon ? * * * GOD ! Let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer, and let the ice-plains echo—GOD... | |
 | 1851 - 496 pages
...invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fuiy, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam ? And who commanded (and the silence came), Here let...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder, and eternal foam '! And who commanded (and the silence came), Here let...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious... | |
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