| 1750 - 372 pages
...down the fteep It thundering moots, and lhakes the country round. At. firft, an azure meet, it ruihes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-refoianding rocks below Dafh'd in a cloud of foam, it fends aloft A hoary mift, and forms a ceafelefs... | |
| James Thomson - 1766 - 266 pages
...broken fcene. SMOOTH to the fhelving brink a copious flood 590 Rolls fair, and placid; where collefted all, In one impetuous torrent, down the fteep It thundering...broad; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, 595 And from the loud-refounding rocks below Dafh'd in a cloud of foam, it fends aloft A hoary mifl:,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 274 pages
...fair, and placid; where collefted all, In one impetuous torrent, down the fteep It thundering moots, and fhakes the country round. , At firft, an azure...broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, 595 And from the loud-refounding rocks below DafiVd in a cloud of foam, it fends aloft A hoary mift,... | |
| James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1788 - 326 pages
...fair, and placid; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the fteep It thundering lhoots, and fhakes the country round. At firft, an azure fheet,...whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-refounding rocks below Daih'd in a cloud of foam, it fends aloft A hoary mift, and forms a ceafelefs... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 292 pages
...year 1738, See bet epitaph in Vol. L V. In one impetuous torrent, down the fteep It thundering (hoots, and fhakes the country round. At firft, an azure fheet,...broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, 59; And from the loud-refounding rocks below Dafh'd in a cloud of foam, it fends aloft A hoary mift,... | |
| James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1793 - 308 pages
...torrent, down the fteep It thundering (hoots, and fhakes the country round. At firft, an azure meet, it rufhes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-refounding rocks below Dam'd in a cloud of foam, it fends aloft A hoary mift, and forms a ceafelefs... | |
| James Thomson, Robert Heron - 1793 - 384 pages
...placid ; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the fteep It thundering fhoots, and makes the country round. At firft, an azure fheet, it rufhes broad ; Then whit'ning by degrees, as prone it falls, 595 And from the loud-refounding rocks below Dafh'd in a cloud... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 972 pages
...down the fteep It thundering (hoots, and (bakes the country roufl At firft, an azure (heet, it rufhcs broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-refounding rocks below Dafh'd in a cloud of foam, it fend* aloft A haiy mift, and forms a ceafekfs... | |
| James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...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 the loud - resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam , it sends aloft A hoary mist , and forms a ceaseless... | |
| Cambrian directory - 1800 - 238 pages
..." It thundering fhoots, and fhakes the country round. F 3 "At " At firft an azure ineet, it rulhes broad ; " Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, " And from the loud-refounding rocks below " Dafti'd in a cloud of foam, it fends aloft " A hoary mift, and forms... | |
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