 It is a fearful thing To stand upon the beetling verge, and see Where storm and lightning, from that huge gray wall, Have tumbled down vast blocks, and at the base Dashed them in fragments, and to lay thine ear Over the dizzy depth, and hear the sound...  The Yale Literary Magazine - Page 691849Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...Of chalky whiteness where tile thunderbolt Has splintered them. It is a fearful thing To stand upon the beetling verge, and see Where storm and lightning, from that huge gray wall, Have tumbled down vast blocks, and at the base Dashed them in fragments, and to lay thine... | |
 | American poetry - 1826 - 192 pages
...Of chalky whiteness where the thunderbolt Has splintered them. It is a fearful thing To stand upon the beetling verge, and see Where storm and lightning, from that huge gray wall, Have tumbled down vast blocks, and at the base Dashed them in fragments, and to lay thine... | |
 | American poetry - 1826 - 192 pages
...Of chalky whiteness where the thunderbolt Has splintered them. It is a fearful thing To stand upon the beetling verge, and see Where storm and lightning, from that huge gray wall, Have tumbled down vast blocks, and at the base Dashed them in fragments, and to lay thine... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...Of chalky whiteness, where the thunderbolt Has splintered them. It is a fearful thing To stand upon the beetling verge, and see Where storm and lightning, from that huge gray wall, Have tumbled down vast blocks, and, at the base, Dashed them in fragments; and to lay thine... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...Of chalky whiteness, where the thunderbolt Has splintered them. It is a fearful thing To stand upon the beetling verge, and see Where storm and lightning, from that huge gray wall, Have tumbled down vast blocks, and, at t!:e base, Dashed them in fragments ; and to lay... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1836 - 288 pages
...Of chalky whiteness where the thunderbolt Has splintered them. It is a fearful thing To stand upon the beetling verge, and see Where storm and lightning, from that huge gray wall, Have tumbled down 'vast blocks, and at the base Dashed them in fragments, and to lay thine... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 292 pages
...Of chalky whiteness where the thunderbolt Has splintered them. It is a fearful thing To stand upon the beetling verge, and see Where storm and lightning, from that huge gray wall, Have tumbled down vast blocks, and at the base Dashed them in fragments, and to lay thine... | |
 | Voyages around the world - 1840 - 350 pages
...are removed from the places which they now adorn. CHAPTER VII. " It is a fearful thing To stand upon the beetling verge, and see Where storm and lightning, from that huge gray wall, Have tumbled down vast blocks, and at the base Dash'd them in fragments, and to lay thine... | |
 | Brimham rocks - 1845 - 34 pages
...and remains, rent asunder, on the plain below. • • • • "It is a fearful thing To stand upon the beetling verge, and see Where storm and lightning, from that huge grey wall Нavе tumbled down vast blocks, and at the baae, Dashed them in fragments ; and to lay thine ear Over... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...Of chalky whiteness, where the thunderbolt Has splinter'd them. It is a fearful thing To stand upon the beetling verge, and see Where storm and lightning, from that huge gray wall, Have tumbled down vast blocks, and, at the base, Dash'd them in fragments ; and to lay thine... | |
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