| James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...SMOOTH to the shelving brink a Copious flood 590 Rolls fair, and placid ; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots,...country 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... | |
| George Holmes - Ireland - 1801 - 238 pages
...view. Smooth to the shelving brink the copious flood Rolls fair and pkcid ; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure street, it ushers broad ; Then whitening by degrees as prone it falls ; And from the loud-resounding... | |
| 1801 - 446 pages
...Smooth to the shelving brink the 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 street, it ushers broad ; c J Then whitening by degrees as prone it falls ; And from the loud -resounding... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...the shelvmg brink, a copious flood VOL. ii. 3 B " Rolls fair and placid; where collected all " In one impetuous torrent, down the steep •* It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round." Thomson's Descrip. of a Cataract. The truth of the assertion is, I think, more strikingly evinced by... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...scene. 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,...country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 340 pages
...scene. 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,...country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd... | |
| James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...Rolls fair, and placid; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thund'ring shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whit'ning by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd... | |
| James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...scene. Smooth to the shelving hrink a copious flood Bolls fair, and placid ; where collected all. In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots,...first, an azure sheet, it rushes hroad ; Then whitening hy degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-resounding rocks helow Dash'd in a cloud of foam,... | |
| Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) - 1803 - 342 pages
...shelving brink, a copious flood " Rolls fair and placid ; were collected all, " In one irapetur/us torrent, down the steep " It thundering shoots, and...country round. " At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad; " Then whitening, by degrees, as prone it falls, " And from the loud resounding rocks below... | |
| James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood 590 Rolls fair and placid ; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots,...country 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... | |
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