...the verge, From side to side beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady...scene, Love watching madness with unalterable mien. THE VENUS OF MEDICIS. But Arno wins us to the fair white walls, Where the Etrurian Athens claims and...

...Resemhling, 'mid the torture of the acene, Love watching Madness with unalterahle mien. LXXIIL Onee more upon the woody Apennine, The infant Alps, which — had I not hefore Gazed on their mightier parents, where the pine Sits on more shaggy summits, and where roar...

...verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn. An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, 38 Like hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady...scene, Love watching madness with unalterable mien. LXXIII. f Once more upon the woody Apennine, The infant Alps, which—had i not before Gazed on their...

...fancied to lie some fathoms deep. " An Iris sits amidst th' infernal surge, Like Hope upon a dcath.bed ; and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn...scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.'' And now I have exhausted all the pleasures of shipboard, which (to my thinking) are few indeed and...

...amidst th* infernal surge, Like hope upon a death-tid, &nd unworn Its steady dyes, While all Mound is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues, with all their beams unihom ; Resembling, 'mid the torture of the ecene Love watching madnta with unalterable mun." We have...

...the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering mom, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady...scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien. The impression made upon the mind, and the image of grandeur and of power presented to it in this wonderful...

...to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, (35) Like Hope upon death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all...scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien. LXXIII. Once more upon the woody Appennine, The infant Alps, which— had I not before Gazed on their...

...side beneath the glittering morn An Iris sits, amidst th' infernal surge, Like hope upon a death-bid, and unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn...beams unshorn ; Resembling, 'mid the torture of the icene Lore witching madness with taialteriible mini." We have a fine instance of this kind of simile...

...glittering morn. An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn It- fteady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene It* brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching...

...the verge, From side to side, beneath the glitt'ring morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and unworn Its steady...scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien!" Byron, in this inimitable description, refers to the Cascata del Marmore, to see which he had made...