 | 1847 - 440 pages
...numbers, ' with its flowers of loveliest blue.' " We here insert a short extract from this " Hymn :" " Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 638 pages
...And who commanded (and the silence cnme). Here let the billows sullen, and have rest? Ye Icc-fiille! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain— Torrents, nicihinks. that heard a mighty Voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents!... | |
 | John William Lester - 1848 - 112 pages
...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's brow Adown...voice, And stopped at once, amid their maddest plunge I Motionless torrents! Silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven, Beneath the... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...line which expresses the optical appearance, rather than the philosophical truth. " Ye ice-falls 1 ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty Voice, And stupp'd at once amid their maddest plunge! — Motionless torrents ! Silent cataracts ! Who made you... | |
 | 1848 - 468 pages
...governs thought, and to the infinite dome Of Heaven is as a law, inhabits thee ! And here is Coleridge : Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the full moon 7 Who bade the Sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who with living flowers Of loveliest hue spread... | |
 | 1848 - 464 pages
...governs thought, and to the infinite dome Of Heaven is as a law, inhabits thoe ! And here is Coleridge : Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the full moon ? Who bade the Sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who with living flowers Of loveliest hue spread... | |
 | 1849 - 612 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 !'* O'er the savage sea The glassy ocean of the mountain ice, We skim its rugged breakers, which put... | |
 | 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
...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, 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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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! 
