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,... Le stagioni - Page 146by James Thomson - 1826 - 412 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1801 - 446 pages
...street, it ushers broad ; c J 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 tortured wave here find repose : • ,< . , - But, raging still among the shaggy rocks, Mow flashes... | |
| James Thomson - 1802 - 320 pages
...Rolls fair, and placid; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thund'ring shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whit'ning by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud... | |
| 1802 - 552 pages
...the fteep It thundering (hoots, and (hakes the country round. At firlr, an azure flreet, it uiliers broad ; Then whitening, by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-refounding rocks below Dalh'd in a cloud of foam, it 'ends aloft ¿J A hoary null, and forms a... | |
| 1802 - 708 pages
...down the ftcep It thundering (hoots, and (hakes the country round. At firft an azure ttra i, it ulhers broad ; Then whitening by degrees as prone it falls ; And from the loud-refounding rocks brlow Daih'd in a cloud of foam, it fends aloft A hoary miff, and forms a ceafelefs... | |
| James Thomson - 1803 - 268 pages
...copious flood Rolls fair, and placid; where collected all , In one impetuous torrent , down the steep It thundering shoots , and shakes the country round....aloft A hoary mist , and forms a ceaseless shower. J Nor can the tortur'd wave here find repose r But , raging still amid the shaggy rocks , Now flashes... | |
| Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) - 1803 - 342 pages
...flood " Rolls fair and placid ; were collected all, " In one irapetur/us torrent, down the steep " It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. "...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... | |
| John Bristed - 1803 - 326 pages
...collected all, • In one impetuous torrent, down the steep • It thundering shoots, and shakes thecountry round, • At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad...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... | |
| James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...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 the loud-resounding rocks helow Dash'd... | |
| James Thomson - 1803 - 330 pages
...down the fteep It thundering fhoots, and fhakes the country round. At firft, an azure fheet, 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 fends aloft A hoary mift, and forms a ceafelefs... | |
| James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...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...broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, 595 And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist,... | |
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