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" Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the... "
Twenty lessons on British mosses - Page 56
by William Gardiner (A.L.S.) - 1849
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now Aslant the hollow py, happy, happy pair ! None mates of the quiet vale. Invited from the dill', to whose dark brow He clings, the steep-ascending...
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The Seasons

James Thomson - 1826 - 176 pages
...raging still amid the shaggy rocks, 600 Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now Aslant the hollow channel rapid darts ; And, falling fast from gradual...lessen'd roar, It gains a safer bed, and steals, at last, 605 Along the mazes of the quiet vale. Invited from the cliff, to whose dark brow He clings, the steep-ascending...
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Le stagioni

James Thomson - 1826 - 438 pages
...fragments, now Aslant the hollowed channel rapid darts; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, \Vith wild infracted course, and lessen'd roar, It gains...steals, at last, Along the mazes of the quiet vale. Invited from the cliff, to whose dark brow He clings, the steep-ascending eagle soars, \Vith upward...
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A tour in France, Savoy, northern Italy, Switzerland, Germany and the ...

Seth William Stevenson - 1827 - 928 pages
...raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter-d fragments, now Aslant the hollow channel rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, With wild infracted course — — — but not " with lessen 'd roar." These alpine torrents gain indeed at last " a safer bed,"...
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The Cambrian Tourist; Or, Post-chaise Companion Through Wales ...

1828 - 348 pages
...raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now Aslant the hollow channel rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual...steals at last Along the mazes of the quiet vale." The following table, taken from Walker's Description of the Devil's Bridge, gives the exact height...
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Portugal Illustrated: In a Series of Letters

William Morgan Kinsey - 1828 - 630 pages
...fears were without cause. We then came into a more gentle current, which — now Aslant the hollow channel rapid darts; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, With wild infracted course, and lessened roar, It gains a safer bed, and steals at last Along the mazes of the quiet vale. The scenery...
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Portugal Illustrated: In a Series of Letters

William Morgan Kinsey - 1828 - 648 pages
...fears were without cause. We then came into a more gentle current, which — now Aslant the hollow channel rapid darts; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, With wild infracted course, and lessened roar, It gains a safer bed, and steals at last Along the mazes of the quiet vale. The scenery...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 12

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 856 pages
...is a demonstration that nothing could be produced by them, since they could never cohere. Clteyne. # qe+ 0 ΄ g k @W V X % oha / F 7qo 1 _Ʀ t lessened roar, It gains a safer bed. Thomson's Summer. So that no part could be removed without Infringement...
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...torlur*d wave here find repose : Bat, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatteijd fragments, now Aslant the hollow'd channel rapid darts...gradual slope to slope, With wild infracted course, and lessened roar, It gains a safer bed, and steals, at last, Along the mazes of the quiet vale. Invited...
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The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never ...

William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scattcr'd fragments, now Aslant the hollow channel rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual...steals, at last, Along the mazes of the quiet vale. Invited from the cliff, to whose dark brow ' A young lady, who died at the age of e ighteen, in the...
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