 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
 | Alexander Reid - 1843
...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...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... | |
 | James Caughey - 1844
...copious flood Rolls fair, and placid: where collected oil, 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 - 1847
...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,... | |
 | Abraham Gesner - 1847 - 388 pages
...collected all In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round ; Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower ; With wild infracted course and lessen'd roar, It gains a safer bed, and steals at last Along the... | |
 | William Gardiner (A.L.S.) - 1849
...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...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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1849 - 438 pages
...scene. I Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood 090 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,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1849 - 676 pages
...eolleeted all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the eountry round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, 695 And from the loud-resounding roeks below Dash'd in a eloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1850 - 685 pages
...eolleeted all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the eountry round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it fells, 595 And from the loud-resounding roeks below Daah'd in a eloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary... | |
 | 1851
...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...whitening by degrees as prone it falls, And from the lond-resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless... | |
 | Henry Drury - 1851 - 361 pages
...• 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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