 ... 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 405by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762Full view - About this book
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788 - 590 pages
...rolling ruin bounds : At every liiock the crackling wood refounds ; Still gath'ring force, it fmokes ; and, urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain : There flops — So Hector. Their whole force he prov'd : Refiftlefs when he rag'd ; and when he ftopt, unmov'd. Iliad,... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1789 - 606 pages
...ruin bounds, •' At every (hock the crackling wood refounds ; " Still gathering ftrength, it fmokes ; and, urg'd amain, *< Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain; «• There flops— So Hector," &c. JEaJ, xiii. Pope, in a word, if we may judge by the unfuccefsfu! attempts of latter writers,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 380 pages
...rolling ruin bounds ; i95 At every fhock the crackling wood refounds ; Still gathering force, it fmokes ; and, urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down,...Refiftlefs when he rag'd, and when he ftopt, unmov'd. On him the war is bent, the darts are fhed, And all their falchions wave around his head : Rcpuls'd... | |
 | Homer - 1791 - 346 pages
...rain bounds ; 195 At ev'ry (hock the erackling wood lefounds ; Still gathering force, it finoaks ; and urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain. There ftops—So Heflor. Their whole force he prov'd ; Refiftlefs when he rag'd.ard when lie ftopp'd, unmov'd.... | |
 | 1792 - 918 pages
...rolling ruin bounds ; At every ihock che crackling wood rclounds ; Still gathering force, it (moke- ; and, urg'd amain. Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain : [prov'd. There ftops— So Heclor. Their whole force he Rcfiftlcfs when he rag'd, and when he ftopt,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...rolling ruin bounds ; At every (hock the crackling wood rcfounds ; Still gathering force, it iniokcs ; and, urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain : [prov'd, There flops— So Heftor. Their whole force he Refiftlefs when he rag'd, and when he ftopt,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...rolling ruin bounds ; At every mock che crackling wood refounds; Still gathering force, it 1'mokes ; and, urg'd amain. Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain : [prov'd, There ftops— So Hector. Their whole lorce he Reflftlefs when he rag'd, and when he ftopt,... | |
 | Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1796 - 402 pages
...bounds; 195 At ev'ry fhock the crackling wood refounds ; Still gath'ring force, itfmokes; and.urg'damain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain: There flops — So Hector . Their whole force he prov'd, Refiftlefs when he rag'd, and when he ftopt, unmov'd. 200 On... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 432 pages
...373. Again, fpeaking of a rock torn from the brow of a •mountain : Still gathering force, it fmokes, and, urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down impetuous to the plain. t Iliad, xiii. 197. Sixthly, A period confiding moftly of long fyllables, that is, of fyllables pronounced... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - English language - 1799 - 156 pages
...ruin bounds ; At ev'ry mock the crackling wood refounds ; Still gath'ring force, it fmokes, and ui'g'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain : , There flops. II. xiii. i91. This noble fimile reprefents the furious defcent of Heftor from the Grecian wall. The... | |
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