 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...still amid the shaggy rocks, 600 Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now Aslant the hollowed channel rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, With wild infracted course, and lessened roar, It gains a safer bed ; and steals, at last, 605 Along the mazes of the quiet vale. INVITED... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1811 - 766 pages
...considerable streams of ivater pour, amidst rocks mid stones, roaring and sounding through the shade, " and falling fast from gradual slope to slope, with wild infracted course," hasten to the lake, and, mingling with its placid flood, steal silently " Along the mazes of the quiet... | |
 | James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope , With wild infracted course , and lessened roar , It gains a safer bed , and steals , at last , Along the mazes of the quiet vale. Invited from the cliff, to whose dard brow He clings, the steep- ascending eagle soars, "With upward... | |
 | George Holmes - 1801 - 238 pages
...raging still among the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now Aslant the hollowed channel rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, With wild infracted course and lessened roar, It gains a safer bed. These lines of Thomson so truly depict the scene, that I could... | |
 | 1801 - 446 pages
...raging still among the shaggy rocks, Mow flashes o'er the scattcr'd fragments, now Aslant the hollowed channel rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope. With wild infracted course snd lessened roar, It gains a safer bed. _ These lines of Thomson so truly depict the scene, that I... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 320 pages
...raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now Aslant the hollow channel rapid darts; And falling fast from gradual...steals, at last, Along the mazes of the quiet vale. Invited from the cliff, to whose dark brow He clings, the steep-ascending eagle soars, With upward... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 340 pages
...rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, With wild infracted course, and lessened roar, It gains a safer bed, and steals at last Along the mazes of the quiet vale. Invited from the cliff, to whose dark brow He clings, the steep-ascending eagle soars, With upward... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now Aslant the hollow channel rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, With wild infracted course, and lessened roar, It gains a safer bed, and steals at last Along the mazes of the quiet vale.Invited from... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now Aslant the hollow channel rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, With wild infracted course, and lessened roar, It gains a safer bed, and steals at last Along the mazes of the quiet vale. Invited... | |
 | Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) - 1803 - 342 pages
...still amid the shaggy rocks, " Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now " Aslant the hollowed channel rapid darts; " And falling fast from gradual...slope to slope, *' With wild infracted course, and lessened roar, " It gains a safer bed, and steals, at last, " Along the mazes of the quiet vale," I... | |
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