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" 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 on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean... "
The Bachelor's Wife: A Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, with ... - Page 403
by John Galt - 1824 - 444 pages
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature

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...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal

1816 - 572 pages
...tar beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him arc icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempeeU on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.' Dismissing such contemplations, the poet turns to the beauties of Nature ' on the banks of the majestic...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 4

Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...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 to those summits led." The reader is of course aware that in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage there is no connected story, though hints...
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The works of ... lord Byron, Volumes 7-8

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...thus reward the toils which to those summits led. XLVI. Away with these! trne Wisdom's world will be Within its own creation, or in thine, Maternal Nature!...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Childe Harold's pilgrimage

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...waste With its own flickering, or a sword laid by Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. XLV. He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest...thus reward the toils which to those summits led. XLVI. Away with these ! true Wisdom's world will be Within its own creation, or in thine, Maternal...
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Lord Byron's Works ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...sword laid by Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. : f g^ eHILDE HAROLDS PILGRIMAGE. ' XLV. He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find, The loftiest...thus reward the toils which to those summits led. XLVI. Away with these! true Wisdom's world will he Within its own creation, or in thine, Maternal Nature!...
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Franklin's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Written During the Years 1818 ..., Volume 2

Franklin James Didier - England - 1822 - 218 pages
...bloom which was to shed its fragrance for eternity in other worlds. LETTER XLIV. He who ascends the mountain-tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt...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...
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The bachelor's wife, a selection of curious and interesting extracts

John Galt - 1824 - 462 pages
...themselves the fools to those they fool ; Envied, yet how unenviable ! what stings Are theirs ! One Bteast laid open were a school /Which would unteach mankind...contrasted with the introduction to Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming, — a poem of rare merit and deb'ghtful beauty, but comparatively very little known, except...
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The works of the rt. hon. lord Byron, Volume 1

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...glory glow, I And far heneath the earth and ocean spread, '; Round him are icy rocks, and loudly hlow ; Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led. XL VL Away with these ! true Wisdom's world will he Within its own ereation, or in thine, Maternal...
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The North American Review, Volume 21

North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1825 - 504 pages
...or a sword laid by Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds...thus reward the toils which to those summits led. The concluding simile is trite. The whole sense of the passage is, that those who act powerfully upon their...
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