 ... Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair and placid; where collected all In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first an azure sheet, it rushes broad; Then whitening by degrees,...  The Bard, Or, The Towers of Morven: A Legendary Tale - Side 47af Evan Jones - 1810 - 160 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 sider
...round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, 595 And from the loud- resounding rocks below Dash'd in...it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortur'd wave here find repose ; But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, 600 Now... | |
 | James Thomson - 1800 - 302 sider
...torrent , down the steep It thundering shoots , and shakes the country round,. At first , an azure- sheet , it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees...it sends aloft A hoary mist , and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortur'd wave here find repose : But , raging still amid the shaggy rocks , 5fow... | |
 | 1801 - 446 sider
...It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure street, it ushers broad ; c J Then whitening by degrees as prone it falls ; And...it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortured wave here find repose : • ,< . , - But, raging still among the shaggy... | |
 | George Holmes - 1801 - 238 sider
...street, it ushers broad ; Then whitening by degrees as prone it falls ; And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortured wave here find repose : But, raging still among the shaggy rocks, Now... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 320 sider
...sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whit'ning by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft...tortur'd wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now Aslant the hollow channel rapid... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 sider
...sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortur'd wave here find repose: But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 sider
...sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortur'd wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes... | |
 | John Bristed - 1803 - 326 sider
...torrent, down the steep • It thundering shoots, and shakes thecountry round, • At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; • Then, whitening, by degrees,...sends aloft ' A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. • Nor can the torpid wave here find repose ; • But raging still amid the shaggy rocks,... | |
 | Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) - 1803 - 342 sider
...torrent, down the steep " It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. " At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad; " Then whitening, by degrees,...sends aloft " A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower; " Nor can the torpid wave here find repose ; " But raging still amid the shaggy rocks, " Now... | |
 | James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 sider
...sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, 595 And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortur'd wave here find repose ; But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, 600 Now... | |
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