| 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
...: But , raging still amid the shaggy rocks , 5fow flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments , now As^int the hollow channel rapid darts ; And falling fast...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... | |
| 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... | |
| George Holmes - 1801 - 238 pages
...and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortured wave here find repose : But, 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... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortur'd wave here find repose: But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er...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... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 320 pages
...aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless show'r. Nor can the tortur'd wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er...gradual slope to slope, With wild infracted course, and lessen'd roar, It gains a safer bed, and steals, at last, Along the mazes of the quiet vale. Invited... | |
| James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortur'd wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er...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... | |
| John Bristed - 1803 - 326 pages
...still amid the shaggy rocks, 4 Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now ' Aslant the hollowed channel rapid darts; ,• •*• And falling fast...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... | |
| Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) - 1803 - 342 pages
...aloft " A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower; " Nor can the torpid wave here find repose ; " But raging 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... | |
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