... 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 - 1861 - 480 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, COO Now flashes o'er the scatter'd... | |
| T. ADDISON RICHARDS - 1857 - 272 sider
...azure 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." The most familiar point of observation is the Pulpit, an immense cliff which projects far into the... | |
| James Thomson - 1862 - 272 sider
...country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad. Then, whitening by degrees, as prone it falla, And from the loud resounding rocks below Dash'd in...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... | |
| Stephen Watson Fullom - 1863 - 488 sider
...sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by 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 flashes o'er the scatter'd... | |
| Stephen Watson Fullom - 1863 - 484 sider
...; Then whitening by degrees, as from it falls, And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in n 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 scatter'd... | |
| Henry Twells - 1864 - 318 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 nocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 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 scattered... | |
| James Thomson - 1868 - 416 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, coo Now flashes o'er the... | |
| James Thomson - 1869 - 178 sider
...T!i::n whitening by degrees, as prune it falls, 5!)b And from thy loud-resounding rocks lielow 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 roeks, 600 Now flashes o'er the... | |
| Virgil - 1871 - 376 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 tortur'd wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd... | |
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