... 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 Adviser: Or, The Moral and Literary Tribunal ... - Side 79af John Bristed - 1803Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| James Thomson - 1806 - 242 sider
...Then whitening by degrees as prone it falls, 595 And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd iji 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 flashes o'er the scatter'd... | |
| Cabinet - 1808 - 524 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...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 o'er the scatter'd... | |
| James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 sider
...sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, Aud from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft...hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortor'd wave here find repose : Rut, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scattcr'd... | |
| Evan Jones - 1810 - 176 sider
...impetuous torrent, down 'the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country . round: At first an agate sheet, it rushes broad, Then whitening by degrees,...it sends aloft. A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless show'r. Nor can the tortur'd wave here find repose, • . - But raging still, amirf the shaggy rocks,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 sider
...sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it fall*. And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft...hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortiir'd wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 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 ceasiless ihower. Nor ran the torturM wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks,... | |
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1812 - 1052 sider
...collected all, Inoiie impetuous torrent, down tlte steep In thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first an azure sheet, it rushes broad ;...a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and form a coneless shower. Nor can the tortured wave here find repose. But raging still amid the shaggy... | |
| John Britton - 1812 - 1070 sider
...; Then whitening by degrees as prone it tails, And from the loud resounding rocks below JJiiili'tl in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and form a coneless shower. Nor can the tortured wave here find repose. But ruging still amid the shaggy... | |
| James Thomson - 1813 - 346 sider
...'"• " ' • , ' " |V 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...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 flashes o'er... | |
| James Thomson, Samuel Johnson - 1813 - 180 sider
...sheet it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it fails, 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. Korean the tortured wave here find repose j But raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er... | |
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