| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...sunshine down the still and everlasting rocks ; and says — " It is not noon— the sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven....No eyes But mine now drink this sight of loveliness ; 1 should be sole in this sweet solitude. And with the Spirit of ibe place divide The homage of these... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - Alps - 1846 - 444 pages
...the wind, as painted so beautifully in Lord Byron's Manfred. " It is not noon, — the sun-bow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven,...be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse." It makes you think of many things, this beautiful fall, springing so fearlessly into the gulf. It is... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 682 pages
...sunshine down the still and everlasting rocks; and says — " It is not noon — the sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven,...along. And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail. L The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse. No eyes But mine now drink this... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1846 - 1068 pages
...the Alp».— A Cataract, (t) Enter MANFRED. Man . 1 1 is not noon— the sunbow's rays(2) stillarch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll...perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, 325 And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail, ' The giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told... | |
| John Murray - 1846 - 552 pages
...condension there — wonderful and indescribable." — Journal. " It и not noon -the sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven,...And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crags headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, like the... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...sunshine down the still and everlasting rocks ; and says — " It is not noon — the sun bow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven,...roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er .the, , cr^g "s, headloiigiperpemlicular, . . . • . ., And fling its lines of foaming light along. ' Arid... | |
| William Lindsay Alexander - Switzerland - 1846 - 360 pages
...some favoured friend amid the solitudes of the opposite Alps. Byron says in his poetry, that it is " Like the pale courser's tail, The giant steed to be bestrode by death As told in the Apocalypse ; " and in his journal he says the same in prose. I am constrained to dissent from the noble poet's... | |
| George Gilfillan - Authors - 1846 - 508 pages
...propounding his canons of austere criticism, and cooking the while his steak ; West arranging the tail of the " Giant steed to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse," with as much coolness as he would his own cravat ; Wilson with his hand trembling at his palette, half... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 356 pages
...lower Valley in the Alps. — A Cataract. (') Enter MANFRED. It is not noon — the sunbow's rays (2) still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven,...courser's tail, The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, (1) [This scene is one of the most poetical and most sweetly written in Ihopoem. There is a still and... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - Alps - 1847 - 382 pages
..." It is not noon — the sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, 7 -ind roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's...be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse." It makes you think of many things, this beautiful fall, springing so fearlessly into the gulf. It is... | |
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