 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 142by James Thomson - 1826 - 412 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1806
...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 iji a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist,... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808
...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...broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, Aud from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and... | |
 | 1809
...down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the conutry round. At first an azure sheet, it rnshe* broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud resounding rocks below * A young lady, well-known to the author, who dird at the age of eighteen,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 526 pages
...one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round* At 6rst, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by...of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceasiless ihower. Nor ran the torturM wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810
...17:38. Jk-r. her epitaph in asiuWijurnt (•-,'- Of ttu* VOk In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round* At...rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it fall*. And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist,... | |
 | Evan Jones - 1810 - 160 pages
...impetuous torrent, down 'the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country . round: At first an agate 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. A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless... | |
 | James Thomson - 1811 - 236 pages
...down the steep It thnnde ring shoots, and shakes the conntry ronnd. At first an azare sheet, it rnshes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the lond-resonnding rocks below Dash'd in a clond of foam, ii sends aloft A hoary irmt, and forms a ceaseless... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1812
...copious flood Rolls fair and placid, where, collected all, Inoiie impetuous torrent, down tlte steep In 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 form a coneless... | |
 | John Britton - 1812
...copious flood Rolls fair and placid, where, collected all. In one impetuous torrent, down the steep In thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At...rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees as prone it tails, And from the loud resounding rocks below JJiiili'tl in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary... | |
 | 1812
...doivn the deep It thundering (hoots, and (hakes the country round. At firft an azure ftreet, it ufliers broad ; * Then whitening by degrees as prone it falls; And from the loud-refounding rocks below Dafh'd iri a cloud of foam, it fends aloft A hoary .-»lit , and forms... | |
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