| James Caughey - 1844 - 344 pages
...tortured waves here find repose; But raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashing o'er the scattered fragments, now Aslant the hollow'd channel rapid darts;...to slope, With wild infracted course, and lessen'd ronr, It gains a safer bed," and steals away into the bosom of the majestic St. Lawrence. I know you... | |
| James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortur'd wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, 600 Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now Aslant...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... | |
| Abraham Gesner - 1847 - 456 pages
...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...steals at last Along the mazes of the quiet vale. THOMSON. In the ascending mist is seen the ever-varying rainbow, and clouds of white spray float over... | |
| Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 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. TROPICAL SCENERY. Plains immense Lie stretch'd below, interminable meads, And vast savannas, where... | |
| James Thomson - 1849 - 524 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, 606 Along the mazes of the quiet vale. Invited from the cliff, to whose dark brow He clings, the steep-ascending... | |
| James Thomson - 1849 - 772 pages
...amid the snaggy roeks, 600 Now flashes o'er the seatter'd fragments, now Aslant the hollow' d ehannel rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, With wild infraeted eourse, and lessen'd roar, It gains a safer bed, and steals, at last, 605 Along the mazes... | |
| James Thomson - 1850 - 800 pages
...hollowM ehannel rapid darte ; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, With wild infraeted eourse, and lessen'd roar, It gains a safer bed, and steals, at last, 605 Along the mazes of the quiet vale. Invited from the eliff, to whose dark brow He elings, the steep-aseending... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1851 - 854 pages
...the scattered fragments, now Aslant the hollow'd channel rapid darts : And falling fast from gradnal slope to slope, With wild infracted course, and lessen'd...steals at last, Along the mazes of the quiet vale. luvited from the clitf, to whose dark brow He clings, the steep-ascending eagle soars, With upward... | |
| William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now Aslant the hollow ut repose of mind, A pure ethereal calm, that knows...no storm ; Above the reach of wild ambition's wind, Ft gains a safer bed, and steals, at last, Along the mazes of the quiet vale. .Tnvited from the cliff,... | |
| Henry Drury - 1851 - 386 pages
...raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scattered fragments, now Aslant the hollowed channel rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, With mild infracted course and lessened roar It gains a safer bed, and steals at last Along the mazes of... | |
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