 | John James Stewart Perowne (bp. of Worcester) - 1882 - 558 pages
...thirst. 12 Above them the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, (And) sing among the branches. Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky ; So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom. broad and deep.... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...conceive, .Satiate with genial moisture; when God said, "Be gather'd now, ye waters under heaven, Into Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject iso Kmergent, and their broad bare backs as yet Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky: So high... | |
 | Karl Philipp Moritz - England - 1886 - 218 pages
...which the Angel describes to Adam ho.w the water subsided, and " Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky." Book VII., \. 285. It seemed to me, while reading this passage, as if everything around... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1886 - 334 pages
...conceive, Satiate with genial moisture ; when God said, ' Be gathered now, ye waters under Heaven, Into one place, and let dry land appear.' Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds ; their tops ascend the sky : So high... | |
 | John Milton - 1886 - 634 pages
...conceive, Satiate with genial moisture, when GOD said, Be gather'd now, ye waters under heav'n, Into one place, and let dry land appear. Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky. So high as... | |
 | Elizabeth Amelia Sharp - English poetry - 1887 - 362 pages
...conceive, Satiate with genial moisture ; when God said, " Be gathered now, ye waters under heaven, Into one place, and let dry land appear ! " Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds ; their tops ascend the sky. So high as... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - Poetry of places - 1887 - 390 pages
...conceive, Satiate with genial moisture ; when God said, " Be gathered now, ye waters under heaven, Into one place, and let dry land appear ! " Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds ; their tops ascend the sky. So high as... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - Geology - 1887 - 528 pages
...Christendom, is well expressed by Milton — ' When God said, " Be gathered now, ye waters under heaven, Into one place, and let dry land appear"! Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky. So high as... | |
 | Hiram Corson - English language - 1892 - 248 pages
...dark her silver mantle threw. — Paradise Lost, iv. 598-609. Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds ; their tops ascend the sky : So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep,... | |
 | John Milton - 1892 - 410 pages
...conceive, Satiate with genial moisture ; when God said ' Be gathered now, ye waters under heaven, Into one place, and let dry land appear ! ' Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds ; their tops ascend the sky. So high as... | |
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