| James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...scene. 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, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, 595 And from... | |
| 1801 - 446 pages
...our view. 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... | |
| 1809 - 572 pages
...Smooth to 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... | |
| George Holmes - 1801 - 238 pages
...our 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... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 340 pages
...broken 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, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...broken 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, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from... | |
| James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...hroken 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, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes hroad ; Then whitening hy degrees, as prone it falls, And from... | |
| 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 shakes the country round. " At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad; " Then whitening, by degrees, as prone it falls, " And... | |
| John Bristed - 1803 - 326 pages
...it. 'Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood 1 Rolls fair and placid ; -where collected all, • In one impetuous torrent, down the steep • It thundering shoots, and shakes thecountry round, • At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; • Then, whitening, by degrees,... | |
| James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...[back, 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, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, 595 And from... | |
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