 | 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... | |
 | 1849 - 508 pages
...the description of glaciers in general, came home forcibly to the present one : — " Ye ice falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain ; Torrents, methinks, thai heard a mighty voice, And slopped at once, amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent... | |
 | 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
...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...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 pages
...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...— Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, 50 And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge ! » Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! —... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1850 - 604 pages
...the declivities, and fastened by some mysterious influence to their sides — " Torrents, methinka, that heard a mighty Voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge l ' 108. Glaciers are referable to the partial thawing and subsequent congelation of the snowy masses... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...eternal foam 7 And who commanded (and the silence came), Here let the billows stiffen and have rest 7 Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown...glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the keen full moon7 Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows 7 Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 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...Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious... | |
 | 1851 - 496 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...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! 
