 The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ;...  THE EDINBURGH REVIEW OF CRITICAL JOURNAL - Side 107av DAVID WILLISON - 1818Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1854 - 468 sider
...we seem to hear around us in such a scene. "The roar of waters! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice; The fall of waters!...where they howl and hiss And boil in endless torture ! " After the fatigues of these ascents and descents from and to the " Acherontic stream," the comforts... | |
 | 1854 - 478 sider
...height Vclino cleaves the wave- worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flushing mass foams, shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters...and hiss • And boil in endless torture ¡ while In their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curb round the rocks of jut That gird the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 sider
...wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the ubyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And...in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agouy, wrung out from this Their Phlegcthon, curls round the rocks of jet That girds the gulf around,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 sider
...Pay orisons for this suspension of disgust. LXIX. The roar of waters ! bom the headlcng height Velino to what it will be, Through thee and thine. Cain....clouds still open wid* And wider, and make widening cir ubyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat... | |
 | Henry Maney - 1854 - 354 sider
...described the might and majesty of Niagara — " The roar of waters ! from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice, The fall of waters ! rapid as the light Tin- flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters I where they howl and hiss ; And boil... | |
 | 1855 - 804 sider
...described a waterfall. Byron speaks of Velino : — " The hell of waters «here they howl and hi», And boil in endless torture, while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung from out this Their Phltgethon, curls round the rocks of jet, That gird the gulf around, iu pitiless... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 833 sider
...orisons for this suspension of disgust. LXIX. The roar of waters!—from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters! rapid as the light The flashing.mass foams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 sider
...of disgust. < LXIX. The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave- worn r's LXX. And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With... | |
 | 1859 - 690 sider
...take a familiar passage in illustration : — The roar of waters ! from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters...from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jot That gird the gulph around, in pitiless horror set. And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again... | |
 | Merchant - 1859 - 368 sider
...lands lying above them. FALLS OP VELINO. 145 " The roar of waters ! from the headlong height ' Velino,' cleaves the wave-worn precipice. The fall of waters...sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this, Their Phlgethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around in pitiless horror set." We could... | |
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