 So, where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden, th' impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert all around...  Military Memoirs of Mr. George Thomas; Who, by Extraordinary Talents and ... - Page 225by William Francklin - 1805 - 383 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 384 pages
...great, so sudden, and so dreadful as this ; ' So where oui' wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden tV impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air,...the dry desert all around him rise, And smother'd ;n the dusty whirlwind, dies.' When Sempronius promises himself the possession of Marciaby a iv.pe,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 pages
...Cato Will look aghast, while unforeseen destruction Pours in upon him thus from every side. So, \vhere our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden th' impetuous...circling eddies play. Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plain* away. Tiie helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert all around him rise,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 638 pages
...unshaken Cato Will look aghast, while unforseen destruction Pours in upon him thus from every side. So, where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden,...around him rise, And smother'd in the dusty whirlwind dies.ACT III. SCENE I. Marcus, Porliut. MARCOS. A HANKS to my stars, I have not rang'd about The wilds... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 532 pages
...behold not, how ' the stream refines, Till by degrees the floating mirror shines ?' While hurricanes ' in circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away,' We shrink with horror, and confess our fear, And all the sudden sounding ruin hear. When purple robes,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 354 pages
...behold not, how ' the stream refines-, Till by degrees the floating mirror shines ?' While hurricanes ' in circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away,' We shrink with horror, and confess our fear, And all the sudden sounding ruin hear. When purple robes,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 540 pages
...behold not, how ' the stream refines, Till by degrees the floating mirror shines ?' While hurricanes ' in circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away,' We shrink with horror, and confess our fear, And all the sudden sounding ruin hear. When purple robes,... | |
 | Edward Kimpton - 1813 - 536 pages
...part of the world by the famous Mr Addison : So, where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden, the impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air,...whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprize, Sees the dry desert all around him rise. And smothered in the dusty whirlwind 1C JJIU.1IIS... | |
 | James Bruce - 1813 - 584 pages
...Sempronius, was perpetually before my mind : — So, where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden the impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air,...and sweep whole plains away. The helpless traveller, \vith wild surprise, Sees the dry desert all around him rise, And, smothered in the dusty whirlwind,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...unshaken Cato Will look aghast, while unforeseen destruction Pours in upon him thus from every side. So where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden,...surprise, Sees the dry desert all around him rise, And, sinother'd in the dusty whirlwind, diei. [Exeunt. ACT III. /.'•.,'.. Marcut and Porliui. Mare. THANKS... | |
 | George Crabb - 1816 - 788 pages
...wbere onr wide Numidlan wastes extend, Sudden th' impetnousAurr/rwie« descend, Wheels through lhe air In circling eddies play. Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plaice away. AonisoN. Stay these ¿udden gutt* of passion, That hurry you away. ll.ini . I burn, I... | |
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