...insignificance by the grandeur and eternal forms of Nature ! It gives one a vast idea of Bonaparte to think of him in these situations. He alone (the...for herself." Neither impeded nor turned aside by immovable barriers, he smote the mountains with his iron glave, and made them malleable ; cut roads...

...scene, in crossing the Alps, he tells us, that he alone '' seemed a match for the elements, and nble to master ' this fortress, built by nature for herself.' Neither impeded nor turned aside by immoveable harriers, he smote the mountains with his iron glaive, and made them malleable; cut roads through them...

...nature! It gives one a vast idea of Buonaparte to think of him in these situations. He alone (the Rob Hoy of the scene) seemed a match for the elements, and...barriers, he smote the mountains with his iron glaive, and niHilu them malleable; cut roads tbrough them; transported armies over their ridgy sleeps; aud the...

...their own thoughts and in the scale of being by the immensity of other things, and who can aggrandize and piece out their personal insignificance by the...immoveable barriers, he smote the mountains with his ironglave, and made them malleable ; cut roads through them ; transported armies over their ridgy steeps...

...alone felt peace or hope), which even the Magdalen Muse of Mr. Moore has not been able to unslng ! We alighted at the inn fatigued enough, and were delighted...the rocks ' nodded to him, and did him courtesies 1 ' We arrived at St. Michelle at night-fall (after passing through beds of ice and the infernal regions...