 ... 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
 | William Morgan Kinsey - 1828 - 648 sider
...current, where whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud resounding rocks below Dashed in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower ; the quick and vehement vociferations of the boatmen ; the rapidity of the stream increasing as the... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 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 torlur*d wave here find repose : Bat, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatteijd... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 sider
...thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then wliitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud resounding...hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortured wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scattcr'd... | |
 | Thomas Rose (topographical writer.) - 1832 - 232 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." -• • ' CUMBERLAND, DUllHAM, AND NORTHUMBERLAND. 53 MITFORD CASTLE,— NORTHUMBERLAND. The village... | |
 | John Robinson - 1833 - 78 sider
...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;...hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortured wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scalter'd... | |
 | H. Jervis - 1834 - 192 sider
...rushes into the middle of the river in two columns. "And from the loud resounding rocks below, " Dashed in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft " A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. 1 ' THOMPSON. probably upon the smaller fish precipitated down the stream. When the river is quite... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 164 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 nicks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 200 sider
..." Then, whitening by degrees, as prone it falls.- "\Q >T And from the loud-resounding rocks below 7 Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tprtur'd wave here find repose • Hut, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, • i X" Now flashes o'er... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1837 - 332 sider
...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 ;...hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortured wave here find repose, But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd... | |
 | James Thomson - 1838 - 236 sider
...broad; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And, from the loud-resounding rocks below, Dashed 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 amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scattered... | |
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