 | Charles Doyne Sillery - 1834 - 248 pages
...Harold — a stanza, which has always struck me as being particularly magnificent, to this effect — " He who ascends to mountain-tops shall find The loftiest...glow, And 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... | |
 | 1835 - 534 pages
...Pilgrim ! Well might he exclaim : ' He who ascends lo mountain tops, shall find The loftiest peaks mop! wrapt in clouds and snow, — He who surpasses or...below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far bmtath the earth anil ocean spread, Rinind him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...waste With its own flickering, or a sword laid by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. " He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest...surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hale of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...unattainable even by the gigantic means which he possessed. — SIR WALTER SCOTT.] L •!• XL1V. He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest...glow, And 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...waste With its own flickering, or a sword laid by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriousry. s than they Have ruffled mine, he will, for all acquittance, Be left to his own shamelessness or shame. (I) The great error of Napoleon, "if we hare writ onr annals true," was a continued obtrusion on mankind... | |
 | Aristomenes (fict. name.) - 1838 - 296 pages
...be taken charge of, he returned to his post of duty. CHAPTER XIV. " He who ascends to mountain tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds...mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below." WORDSWORTH. ALTHOUGH the Spartans had succeeded in the late engagement, far beyond their expectations,... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1840 - 370 pages
...different were his doom ! Childe Harold. CHAPTER I. A more than earthly crown The dictatorial wreath. He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down...glow, And 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... | |
 | Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - 1840 - 1020 pages
...his doom ! CHiUe Harold. 300 CROMWELU CHAPTER 1. A more than carthly crown The dictatorial wreath. He who surpasses or subdues mankind. Must look down...below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far btniath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1841 - 410 pages
...crowned head — But soft! Look, underneath yon jutting crag Are hunters and a slaughter'd stag. 1 [" He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest...high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earih and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...lower." » MS.—" Ponr'd like a torrent dread." 3 MS. — " J*c;ip from the mountain's head." * " Ho b4h o o k k k 6 aim of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Hound him are icy rocks, and loudly... | |
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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... 
