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" 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,... "
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by James Thomson - 1826 - 412 pages
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Landscape in Poetry from Homer to Tennyson

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1897 - 326 pages
...that best hour of musing thine. Thomson's waterfall with that which we have given from Vaughan — At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening...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 scatter'd...
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The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from ..., Volume 8

Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 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. At...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...
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Sketches of Some of the Southern Counties of Ireland: Collected During a ...

George Holmes - 1901 - 248 pages
...the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure street, it ushers broad ; Then whitening by degrees as prone it falls...aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. . i Nor can the tortured wave here find repose : But, raging still among the shaggy rocks, Now flashes...
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Quellenstudien zu Robert Burns, 1773-1791

Otto Ritter - 1901 - 282 pages
...charakteristische Striche; vor allem hat die Beschreibung eines Wasserfalls in Summer, 594ff. vorgeschwebt: 'At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad; Then whitening by degrees. as prone it falls, And from the loud-resownding rocks below Dashed in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseleas...
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Palaestra

1901 - 756 pages
...by degrees, äs frone it falls, And from the \ovA-resounding rocks below Doshed in a cloud of /bom, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortored wave here ftnd repose, But, raging still amid the shaggy rocte,' etc. Weiterhin klingen folgende...
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Quellenstudien zu Robert Burns, 1773-1791

Otto Ritter - 1901 - 280 pages
...charakteristische Striche; vor allem hat die Beschreibung eines Wasserfalls in Summer, 594 if. vorgeschwebt : 'At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad; Then whitening by degrees, äs prone it falls, And from the \o\iA-resounding rocks below Dashed in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft...
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The Poems of Alexander Hume (?1557-1609)

Alexander Hume - 1902 - 386 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. At...it falls, And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dashed in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A heavy mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortured...
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Black's Guide to Scotland

Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1903 - 852 pages
...perpendicular rock of about 30 ft. into a deep basin. " In one Impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At...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." — Thomson....
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English Studies in Interpretation and Composition for High Schools

Myra Soper Woodley, Oscar Israel Woodley - 1906 - 376 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. At...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...
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James Thomson

George Campbell Macaulay - 1908 - 280 pages
...occasion in this manner. and the wanderer checks his steps to view the scene of the cascade : — " At first an azure sheet it rushes broad ; Then whitening...wave here find repose ; ' But raging still amid the shagoy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now Aslant the hollow channel rapid darts,...
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