 When the glaciers, dark with death, Hang o'er precipices wild, Hang — suspended by a breath ; If a pulse but throb alarm, Headlong down the steeps they fall ; — For a pulse will break the charm, — Bounding, bursting, burying all. Struck with horror,...  The Continent in 1835: Sketches in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, and ... - Side 153af John Hoppus - 1837 - 340 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1806 - 502 sider
...waters of the Hood, Rolling round a buried world.' pp. 11-13. By an (a) hundred winters piled, When the Glaciers, dark with death, Hang o'er precipices...—suspended by a breath: If a pulse but throb alarm, Dash'd down dreadful in a trice, —For a pulse will break the charm,— Headlong rolls the rock of... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1813 - 192 sider
...lands ; And my father's cot no more On my father's mountain stands. By an hundred winters piled, When the Glaciers, * dark with death, Hang o'er precipices...breath : If a pulse but throb alarm, Headlong down the steeps they fall ; —For a pulse will break the charm, — Bounding, bursting, burying all. • More... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 374 sider
...Montgomery's description of an avalanche : By an hundred winters piled, Where the glaciers* dark wi'ili death, Hang o'er precipices wild, Hang suspended by...•If a pulse but throb alarm, , Headlong down the steeps they fall ; — — For a pulse will break the charm, Bounding, bursting, burying all. Struck... | |
 | Thomas Raffles - 1818 - 330 sider
...general truth of our friend Montgomery's description of an avalanche : By an hundred winters piled, Where the glaciers* dark with death, Hang o'er precipices wild, Hang suspended by a breath. * More properly avalmchtff li a pulse but throb alarm, Headlong down the steeps they fall; For a pulse... | |
 | 1823 - 194 sider
...of the mountains, and destroy every thing in their way. " By an hundred winters piled, Avalanches, dark with death, Hang o'er precipices wild, Hang suspended...breath ; "If a pulse but throb alarm, Headlong down the steeps they fall ; For a pulse will break the charm, Bounding, bursting, burying all. " Struck with... | |
 | 1826 - 192 sider
...of the mountains, and destroy every thing in their way. " By an hundred winters piled, Avalanches, dark with death, Hang o'er precipices wild, Hang suspended...; " If a pulse but throb alarm, Headlong down the steeps they fall ; For a pulse will break the charm, Bounding, bursting, burying all. " Struck with... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 sider
...father's cot no more On my father's mountain stands. " By an hundred winters piled, When the Glaciers,1 dark with death, Hang o'er precipices wild, Hang —...: " If a pulse but throb alarm, Headlong down the steeps they fall ; —For a pulse will break the charm,— Bounding, bursting, burying all. lhe /«Hanche.... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 sider
...winters piled, When the Glaciers, '.dark with death, Hong o'er precipices wild, Hang — >uspended by a breath : " If a pulse but throb alarm. Headlong down the steeps they fall ; — For a pulse will break the charm, — Bounding, bursting, burying all. 1 More... | |
 | John Hoppus - 1836 - 770 sider
...parts of the description are more applicable to the snow avalanche : " By a hundred winters piled, When the glaciers dark with death, Hang o'er precipices...pulse will break the charm, — Bounding, bursting, — burying all. Struck with horror stiff and pale, When the chaos breaks on high, All that view it... | |
 | 1836 - 514 sider
...father's cot no more On my lather's mountain stands. " By on hundred winters piled, When the Glaciers,1 dark with death, Hang o'er precipices wild, Hang—...: " If a pulse but throb alarm, Headlong down the steeps they fall ; — For a pnlee will break the charm,— Bounding, bursting, burying all. 1 More... | |
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