 | John Walter Gregory - Fiords - 1913 - 602 pages
...unweathered rock. CHAPTER XXIII THE TECTONIC ORIGIN OF FIORDS 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,... | |
 | Samuel John Thomson - India - 1913 - 418 pages
...immortal lines on the Creation instinctively occur to the mind — " Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds ; their tops ascend the sky. For chaos heard His voice : Him all His train Followed in bright procession to behold... | |
 | Frank C. Johnson, Jack Lindsay, Kenneth Slessor - Australian literature - 1923 - 310 pages
...the great mother to conceive, Satiate with genial moisture. Or again — 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,... | |
 | Karl Philipp Moritz - England - 1924 - 278 pages
...the Angel describes to Adam how the waters subsided, and " Immediately the mountains huge appear " Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave " Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky." Book vii. 1. 285. It seemed to me, while reading this passage, as if every thing around... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 450 pages
...to 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 thir broad bare backs upheave Into the Clouds, thir tops ascend the Sky : So high as... | |
 | University of Glasgow. Geological Dept - Geology - 1927 - 184 pages
...formation of mountain and valley were clearly stated by Milton: 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,... | |
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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... 
