| James Thomson - 1806 - 242 pages
...scene. Smooth to the shelving brink a copious 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 first an azure sheet, it rushes broad; Then whitening by degrees as prone it falls, 595 And from... | |
| James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808 - 444 pages
...broken scene. 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, as prone it falls, Aud from... | |
| Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...broken scene. 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, as prone it falls, And from... | |
| 1809 - 402 pages
...broken scene. Smooth to the shelving brink a copious 8mA Rolls fair and placid ; •- here collected all In one impetuous torrent, 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,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...died at the age of eighteen, in the year 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 first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it fall*. And from... | |
| Evan Jones - 1810 - 176 pages
...of rock, which it had undermined, undermined, and washed down in its course. .'... ,' V s 'x In an 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... | |
| James Thomson - 1813 - 346 pages
...steps, and view the broken scene. A Waterfall docrilxd. 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 ; • '• '"• " ' • , ' " |V Then whitening by degrees,... | |
| James Thomson, Samuel Johnson - 1813 - 180 pages
...broken scene. 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 rou&A At first, an azure sheet it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it fails, And... | |
| William Bingley - 1814 - 572 pages
...Montgomeryshire. Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood ' . Rolls fair and placid ; where collected, 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 as prone it falls, .:• . And... | |
| James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - 1818 - 316 pages
...broken scene. 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, as prone it falls, And from... | |
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