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The Adviser: Or, The Moral and Literary Tribunal ... - Page 79
by John Bristed - 1803
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Appletons' Hand-book of American Travel, The Southern Tour: Being a Guide ...

Edward Hepple Hall - 1866 - 230 pages
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Appletons' Hand-book of American Travel. The Northern Tour ...

Edward Hepple Hall - 1867 - 620 pages
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The Poetical Works of James Thomson: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and ...

James Thomson - 1868 - 416 pages
...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...hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortur'd wave here find repose ; But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, coo Now flashes o'er the...
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The Seasons: A Poem. Compared with the London and Edinburgh Ed

James Thomson - 1869 - 178 pages
...T!i::n whitening by degrees, as prune it falls, 5!)b And from thy loud-resounding rocks lielow Dashed in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortured wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy roeks, 600 Now flashes o'er the...
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Virgil in English Rhythm: With Illustrations from the British Poets, from ...

Virgil - 1871 - 376 pages
...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 ;...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 the scatter'd...
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Sir Walter Scott as a Poet

Gilbert Malcolm Sproat - 1871 - 144 pages
...broad ; Then whitening by degrees as prone it falls, And from the loud resounding rocks below Dashed in a cloud of foam it sends aloft A hoary mist and forms a ceaseless shower; Nor can the tortured wave here find repose ; But raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scattered...
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Rudiments of English composition. [With] Key. Adapted to the improved ed

Alexander Reid - 1872 - 174 pages
...broad; Then, whitening, by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dashed in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortured wave here find repose: But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scattered...
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The poetical works of James Thomson. With life, critical diss., and ...

James Thomson - 1873 - 758 pages
...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...hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortur'd wave here find repose ; But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, eoo Now flashes o'er the...
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The biblical museum. Old Testament, Volumes 9-10

James Comper Gray - 1876 - 868 pages
...collected all in one Impetuous torrent, down tho steep it thund'ring shoots, and shakes the country round. At first an azure sheet it rushes broad, then...aloft a hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor even the torrid wave here finds repose, but raging still amid the shaggy rocks, now noshes o'er the...
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...sheet, it rushes broad : Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls. And from the loud-resounding abhorr'd in Catiline, n Decius charms, in Curtius...: The same ambition can destroy or save. And make lortur'd wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd...
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