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" ... mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends), Precipitate the... "
Elements of Criticism - Page 405
by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...drags its slow length aloag, A rock torn from the brow of a mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain. Extent and violence of the zvaves. The waves behind impel the waves before, Wide-rolling, foaming high,...
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Elements of criticism [by H. Home].

Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...373. Again, speaking of a rock torn from the brow of a mountain: Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain. l,« . i . Iliad, xiii. 197. Sixthly, A period consisting mostly of long syllables, that is, of syllables...
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An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the ..., Volume 1

Lindley Murray - English language - 1819 - 718 pages
...irregular motion, that of a rock torn from (lie brow of a mountain. Still gatb'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain. The THIRD set of objects, which the sound of words is capable of representing, consists of the passions...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...drags its slow length along. A Rock Torn from the Brow of a Mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps and thunders down, impetuous to the plain. Extent and Violence of the Waves. The waves behind impel the waves before, Wide rolling, foaming high,...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...its slow lerigth along. ./? rock torn from the brow of a mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain Extent and violence of the waves The waves behind impel the waves before, Wide rolling, foaming high,...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 41

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1822 - 344 pages
...rolling ruin bounds; At every shock the crackling wood resounds; Still gathering force, it smokes; and, urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain: [prov'd, There stops — So Hector. Their whole force he Resistless when he rag'd, and, when he stopp'd,...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces of Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...drags its slow length along. A rock torn from the brow of a mountain. Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain. Extent and violence of the waves. The waves behind impel the waves before, Wide-rolling, foaming high,...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...drags it slow length along. A rock torn from the brow of a mountain. Still gathering force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain. Extent and violence tif the waves. The waves behind impel the waves before. Wide-rolling, foaming high,...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: From the Best Writers ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...its slow length along'. A rock torn from the brow of a mountain. Still gath'ring force', it smokes*, and urg'd amain', Whirls*, leaps*, and thunders down', impetuous to the plain* Rctmt and violence of the waves. The waves behind impel the waves before', Wide-rolling*, foaming high',...
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An Abridgment of Elements of Criticism

Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1831 - 328 pages
...rolling ruin bounds : At every shock the crackling wood resounds ; Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and, urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain : There stops — So Hector. Their whole force he prov'd : Resistless when he raged ; and when he stopp'd,...
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