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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 Works of William H. Seward - Page 88
by William Henry Seward - 1853
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of 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...
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The works of ... lord Byron, Volumes 7-8

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...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 of glory...his naked head, And 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...
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Lord Byron's Works ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...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...his naked head, And 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...
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Franklin's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Written During the Years 1818 ..., Volume 2

Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 pages
...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...his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led. BTROK. RESPECT is due to high station; but the meed of severe rebuke should ever...
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The bachelor's wife, a selection of curious and interesting extracts

John Galt - 1824 - 462 pages
...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...his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.' The stern sublimity of this highly-poetical and descriptive passage may be agreeably...
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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...
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The North American Review, Volume 21

1825 - 504 pages
...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...his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led. The concluding simile is trite. The whole sense of the passage is, that those who...
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The complete works of lord Byron with a biogr. and critical ..., Volumes 1-2

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him arc icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And 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...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Complete in One Volume

George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far bi:nnttfi the earth and ocean spread, Hound him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests...his naked head. And 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,...
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Childe Harold's pilgrimage, a romaunt

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 170 pages
...sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Jluund him are icy rocks, and londly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led. XLVI. Away with these ! true Wisdom's world will be Within its own creation, or...
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