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,... Le stagioni - Seite 146von James Thomson - 1826 - 412 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| James Thomson - 1813 - 346 Seiten
...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, as prone it falls, 595 And from the loud-resounding... | |
| James Thomson, Samuel Johnson - 1813 - 180 Seiten
...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 from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist,... | |
| William Bingley - 1814 - 572 Seiten
...copious flood ' . Rolls fair and placid ; where collected, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep, It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At...by degrees as prone it falls, .:• . And from the loud resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mis):, and forms a ceaseless... | |
| John Milford - 1818 - 300 Seiten
...beautiful lines of the poet seemed to describe the scene, " In one impetuous torrent down the steep ,. It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round; At...whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the loud resounding rocks below • Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a... | |
| Steam boat companion - 1820 - 174 Seiten
...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...sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as from it falls, And, from the loud-resounding rocks below, Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft... | |
| James Thomson - 1822 - 174 Seiten
...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...hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortured wave here tind repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now Hashes o'er the scatter'd... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 Seiten
...copious flood 1!oils fair, and placid; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At...hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortured wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd... | |
| 1822 - 278 Seiten
...collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes thecountry round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ;...hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortured wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 Seiten
...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...whitening by degrees as prone it falls, And from the loud resounding rocks below, Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless... | |
| George Nelson Smith - 1822 - 272 Seiten
...spouting in some new direction or gushing across each other. The lowest fall is hid by the underwood. And from the loud-resounding rocks below Dash'd in...aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. THOMSON. After an interval of shrubby borders and grassy projections, the banks shelve into the channel... | |
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