| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...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...far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on bis naked head, And thus reward the toils which... | |
| 1816 - 572 pages
...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...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... | |
| English literature - 1816 - 692 pages
...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... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...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...far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 292 pages
...ingloriously. 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...far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...PILGRIMAGE. ' 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...far beneath the earth and Ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which... | |
| Franklin James Didier - England - 1822 - 218 pages
...worlds. LETTER 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...far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which... | |
| Decorative arts - 1827 - 472 pages
...every house 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 - Bookbinding - 1823 - 334 pages
...Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on...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 pages
...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...far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which... | |
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