| Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pagine
...ingloriously. " He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peak-, most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down...icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on bis naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led." The reader is of course aware... | |
| 1816 - 572 pagine
...ingloriously. ' He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down...below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And tar beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him arc icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempeeU... | |
| 1816 - 692 pagine
...subdues mankind, Though high above the sun of glory glow. And for beneath the earth and ocean spread, Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led." Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow The reader is of course aware that in Childe Harold't Pilgrimage... | |
| 1817 - 552 pagine
...-top», shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt iu clouds and anew ; Hf «bo surpasses or subdue« mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high nbr.re the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, A'i'imrf him are icy rocks,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pagine
...loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; IJc who surpasses or subduos mankind, Must look down oil the hate of those below. Though high above the sun...which to those summits led. XLVI. Away with these! trne Wisdom's world will be Within its own creation, or in thine, Maternal Nature! for who teems like... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pagine
...XLV. He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find, The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ;' He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down...led. XLVI. Away with these! true Wisdom's world will he Within its own creation, or in thine, Maternal Nature! for who teems like thee, Thus on the banks... | |
| Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 pagine
...XLIV. He who ascends the mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow : He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down...thus reward the toils which to those summits led. BTROK. RESPECT is due to high station; but the meed of severe rebuke should ever be awarded to the... | |
| 1827 - 472 pagine
...in * He who atcends the mountain tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds of snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Lord BYROS'S Childe Harold. NN Tim LAST DAT OF THE LAST YBAIU the neighbourhood, and had made her way... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 334 pagine
...XLV. He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down...thus reward the toils which to those summits led. Away with these ! true Wisdom's world will be Within its own creation, or in thine, Maternal Nature... | |
| John Galt - 1824 - 462 pagine
...ingloriously. " He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down...thus reward the toils which to those summits led.' The stern sublimity of this highly-poetical and descriptive passage may be agreeably contrasted with... | |
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