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
| George Crabb - 1818 - 918 pages
...billows tear the skies. BUIOLBT. So where oar wide Nnmldlan wastes extend, Sadden th' impetnousAurrtcanfs descend. Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains aw^r. ADDUOH. Stay these sadden fíala of passion That hurry you away. Howe. I burn, 1 burn ! The storm... | |
| 1820 - 190 pages
...hoary pile appears, The gather'd winter of a thousand years. POPE. A STORM IN A DESERT. So where the wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden th' impetuous...Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away. the Goldfinch starved in Ms Cage. \3l The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, ~1 Sees the dry desert... | |
| Samuel Horsley - 1820 - 458 pages
...Arabia, that sweep up the whole surface of the plain, and bury every thing they overtake. « The weary traveller, with wild surprise Sees the dry desert all around him rise, And, buried in the dusty whirlwind, dies. In the original, a comma should be placed at 5^3, for the word... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 508 pages
...could not have found a representation of a disaster so great, so sudden and so dreadful as this ? ' So where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden th'...rise, And smother'd in the dusty whirlwind dies.' When Sempronius promises himself the possession of Martia by a rape, he triumphs in the prospect, and... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 324 pages
...so great, so sudden, and so dreadful as this : So where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden tb' impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air,...rise, And smother'd in the dusty whirlwind, dies. When Sempronius promises himself the possession of Marcia by a rape, he triumphs in the prospect, and... | |
| James Ferguson - 1823 - 360 pages
...he could not have found a representation of a disaster so great, so sudden, and so dreadful as this; So where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden th'...through the air, in circling eddies play, Tear up the Kinds, and sweep whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert... | |
| 1823 - 536 pages
...concluded in our next.) THE SANDY DESERTS OF AFRICA. " So where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sadden the impetuous hurricanes descend : Wheel through the air,...Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away— Th' affrighted traveller, with wild surprise, -j Sees the dry desert all around him rise, > And, smother'd... | |
| British drama - 1824 - 834 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...traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert alt around him rise, And, smother'd in the dusty whirlwind, dies. [Exeunt. ACT III. SCENE /.— The... | |
| George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pages
...into the mouth of Syphax, a Numidian prince. u So where our wide Numidian states extend, Sudden the impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air,...surprise, Sees the dry desert all around him rise, And, smothered in the dusty whirlwind, dies." The south wind in those arid regions, blowing over an immense... | |
| 1826 - 434 pages
...he could not have found a representation of a disaster so great, so sudden, and so dreadful as this: So where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden th'...rise, And smother'd in the dusty whirlwind, dies. When Sempronius promises himself the possession of ^larcia by a rape, he triumphs in the prospect,... | |
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