 | Erasmus Darwin - 1798 - 472 pages
...Climb'd on the whirls, and aim'd the flinty ihowers ! — Onward rcliftlefs rolls the infuriate furge, Clouds follow clouds, and mountains mountains urge ; Wave over wave the driving defert fwims, Burfts o'er their heads, inhumes their flruggling limbs ; 490 Alan mounts on man, on... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1805 - 224 pages
...and close their blood-shot eyes. —Gnomes! o'er the waste you led your myriad powers, Climb'd on the whirls, and aim'd the flinty showers ! . — Onward...Wheeling in air the winged islands fall, And one great earthy ocean covers all ! — Then ceased the storm, — night bow'd his ethiop brow To earth, and... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 280 pages
...myriad powers, Climb'don the whirls and aim'd the flinty showr's : Onward resistless rolls th' impetuous surge, Clouds follow clouds and mountains mountains...Wheeling in air the winged islands fall, And one great earthy ocean covers all ! " In vain did I endeavour to re-animate my unfortunate companion. My efforts... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1813 - 350 pages
...minis of sand, which may be called the waves, or rather th* moving mountains, of the Desert. » • Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts o'er their heads, inhumes their struggling limbs. ***** ,And one great earthy ocean covers all. Then ceased the storm, — Night bowed his AiHhioj.i... | |
 | 1813 - 534 pages
...sand, which may be called the waves, or rather, the moving mountains, of the desert, Wave over reave the driving desert swims, Bursts o'er their heads, inhumes their struggling limbs. * » * * » "' * And one great earthy ocean covers all. Then ceased t he storm, — Nighl baited his... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1814 - 494 pages
...o'er the waste you led your myriad powers, Climb'd on the whirls, and aim'd the flinty slmwrr.s!— Onward resistless rolls the infuriate surge, Clouds...Wheeling in air the winged islands fall, And one great earthy ocean covers all !— Then ceas'd the storm,— NIGHT bow'd his Ethipp brow To earth, and listen'd... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 628 pages
...close their blood-shot eyei. — GNOMES! o'er the waste TOD led your myriad powers, Climb'd on the whirls, and aim'd the flinty showers! — Onward resistless...hosts, and nations nations crush, — Wheeling in air thr winged Islands fall, And one great earthy Ocean covers all ! — F.OITOR. CHAP. XLI. THE PKESTER,... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 588 pages
...close their blood-shot eyes. — GNOMES! o'er the waste YOU led your myriad powers, Climu'd on the whirls, and aim'd the flinty showers! — Onward resistless...over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts o'er their headi, inhumes their straggling limbs; Man mounts on man, on camels camels rush, Hosts march o'er hosts,... | |
 | Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) - 1818 - 376 pages
...mighty columns of sand, which may be called the waves, or rather the moving mountains of the desert. Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts o'er their heads, inhumes their struggling limbs. * # * # * And one great earthy ocean covers all. Then ceased the storm, — Night bowed his JEthiop... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 pages
...and close their blood-shot eyes. Gnomes ! o'er the waste you led your myriad powers, Climb 'd on the whirls, and aim'd the flinty showers '. Onward resistless...Wheeling in air the winged islands fall, And one great earthy ocean covers all ! — Then ceased the storm, — Night bow'd his Ethiop brow To earth, and... | |
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Gnomes ! o'er the waste you led your myriad powers, Climb'd on the whirls, and aim'd the flinty showers ! Onward resistless rolls the infuriate surge, Clouds follow clouds, and mountains mountains urge ; Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts... 
