... 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 Bingley - 1839 - 414 sider
...where collected, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep, It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first an azure sheet it rushes broad ; Then...aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. CHAPTER XXXIV. VOYAGE FROM LIVERPOOL TO BANGOR. BANGOR is distant from Liverpool about 64 miles, and... | |
| William Bingley - 1839 - 400 sider
...where collected, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep, It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first an azure sheet it rushes broad ; Then...aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. CHAPTER XXXIV. VOYAGE FROM LIVERPOOL TO BANGOR. BANGOR is distant from Liverpool about 64 miles, and... | |
| 1839 - 324 sider
...sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening hy degrees, as from 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 tortured wave here find repose; But raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flushes o'er the scatter*... | |
| Rosina Maria Zornlin - 1840 - 516 sider
...hroad, Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the long-resounding rocks below Dashed in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. South America contains several waterfalls; the most celebrated of these is the cataract of Tequendama,... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 sider
...sheet, it rushes brood : Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-resounding e's passage, hills of sand, And dangerous flats, in secret am tortur'd wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd... | |
| James Thomson - 1842 - 440 sider
...rushes hrnad ; Then whitening hy degrees- as prone it falls, And from the loud-resounding rocks helow 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 o'er the scatter'd... | |
| Alexander Reid - 1843 - 122 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 tortured wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 sider
...sheet, it rushes broad : Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-resounding tortur'd wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatler'd... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 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 scattcr'd... | |
| James Caughey - 1844 - 344 sider
...collected oil, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first an azure sheet, it rushes broad: Then...hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortured waves here find repose; But raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashing o'er the scattered... | |
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