Alps Quotes
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Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes, And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.
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More Alps Quotes
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules, Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought More for mankind at this unhappy day Then all the pride of intellect and thought?
william wordsworth— Alas! What Boots the Long Laborious Quest?, l. 11 (1809).
Beyond the Alps lies Italy.
— James William Foley, Graduation Time Expression found in Livy Ab Urbe Bk 21 30.
We were eight daysincoming hither from Lyons; thefour last in crossing the Alps. Such uncouth rocks, and such uncomely inhabitants!
— 1739 Letter to RichardWest. Collected in P Cunningham (ed) The Letters of HoraceWalpole, Fourth Earl of Orford (1857-9).
If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.
james thurber— Quoted in The New York Times (21 February 1960)
Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar , Virgil and Augustus .
benito mussolini— Speech at the 5th Levantine Fair (6 September 1934) in reference to German Nordicism; quoted in Hitler's Ten-year War on the Jews (1946) by the Institute of Jewish Affairs
I do defy him, and I spit at him; Call him a slanderous coward and a villain: Which to maintain I would allow him odds, And meet him, were I tied to run afoot Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act I, scene 1, line 60
Every will stands on its own bottom and is various as anything whatsoever, and therefore it is hard to cite a case that can quadrate. I have mean thoughts of my own opinion. I may say in this case, diffieilius est invenire quam vincere, as Caesar said when he and his army ran about the Alps to find out a way.
— Treby, C.J., Monnington v. Davis (1695), Fortescue, 227.
Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scAlps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche – the thunderbolt of snow! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), line 590.
After looking at the Alps, I felt that my mind had been stretched beyond the limits of its elasticity, and fitted so loosely on my old ideas of space that I had to spread these to fit it.
Holmes, Sr., Oliver Wendell— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), ch. 11.
Alps on Alps in clusters swelling, Mighty, and pure, and fit to make The ramparts of a Godhead's dwelling!
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Rhymes on the Road (1823).
So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try, Mount o'er the Vales, and seem to tread the Sky; Th' Eternal Snows appear already past, And the first Clouds and Mountains seem the last: But those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing Labours of the lengthen'd Way, Th' increasing Prospect tires our wandring Eyes, Hills peep o'er Hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711), Part II, line 32, line 225.
Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar , Virgil and Augustus .
— Benito Mussolini's early opinion of Nazism, as quoted in Hitler's Ten-year War on the Jews (1946), by Institute of Jewish Affairs
King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scAlps, He lifts his head at that close tread, The eagle of the Alps.
victor hugo— Victor Hugo, Swiss Mercenaries.
