 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
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pages
...desert tanJi. Knotlei. Her sons spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Lybian sands. Millo*. So, where our wild Numidian wastes extend, Sudden th' impetuous hurricanes...descend, Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play, Tcer up the itndt, and swe«p whole plains awaThe helpless traveller, wilh wild surpri Sees the dry... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...hour of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. DESCRIPTION cf a HURRICANE. (ADDISON.) So, where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden,...helpless traveller, with wild surprise Sees the dr-y desart all around him rise, And, smother'd in the dusty whirlwind, dies. - .' N 5 ' i CATO'S ADVICE... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pages
...hoary pile appears, Thegather'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 The Goldfinch starved in his Cage. 131 The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry destrt... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 446 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,...rise, And, smother'd in the dusty whirlwind dies. [Exeunt. ACT THE THIRD. SCENE I. A Chamber. Enter MARCUS and PORTIUS. Marc. Thanks to my stars, I have... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 358 pages
...Numidian wastes extend, Sadden th' impetuons hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air, in cii cling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains...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... | |
 | George Farquhar - 1808 - 338 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,...the air, in circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, aud sweep whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise Sees the dry desert all around... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 370 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'...impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air, in cii cling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away, The helpless traveller, with... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 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,...rise, and, smother'd in the dusty whirlwind dies. [Rwwtl ACT III. SCENE I. Enter MARCUS and PORTIUS. Marc. Thanks to my stars, I have not rang'di the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 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, smothcr'd in the dusty whirlwind dies. [Exeunt. ACT III. SCENE I. Enter MARCUS and PORTIUS. Marc. Thanks... | |
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