 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
 | Mary Linwood - 1822 - 24 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 first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad; Then whit'ning by degrees, as prone it ¡alls And from the Ion«! resounding rocks below, Dash'd in a cloud... | |
 | 1822
...broad ; Then whit'ning by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud-resounding rocks bclow, Dasb'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower.'' -Deum namquc ire per omncs Terrasque tractusque maris, coelumque profundum. Vine. THE Geysers in Iceland... | |
 | George Nelson Smith - 1822
...each other. The lowest fall is hid by the underwood. And from the loud-resoimding rocks below Dasb'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. . THOMSON. After an interval of shrubby borders and grassy projections, the banks shelve into the channel... | |
 | 1821
...fair and placid ; where collected all In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoot*, 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 ID a cloud... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 131 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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1824 - 215 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 tortured wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd... | |
 | Joseph Hardy - 1825 - 84 pages
...bed. The torrent then forms almost one cloud of spray, and precipitates itself into the deep gulf; " And from the loud-resounding rocks below, Dash'd in...aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower." The thick vapour around you, acted upon by the rays of the sun, falls sparkling in all the colours... | |
 | James Thomson - 1826 - 154 pages
...round. At first an azure sheet,, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, 595 And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in...hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortured wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, 600 Now flashes o'er the... | |
 | Seth William Stevenson - 1827
...impetuons torrent down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first a verdant 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... | |
 | 1828 - 316 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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