| Classical poetry - 1822 - 278 pages
...thought: swift-shrinking back, I check my steps, and view the broken scene. 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 thecountry round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad... | |
| Mary Linwood - 1822 - 30 pages
...And melts in visions of eternal day. Np. 51. WATER-FALL. Ruy s dale. 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;... | |
| William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...into the deep ! A prince with half his people ! WATERFALL. Thomson. 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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...back, I check my steps, and view the broken scene. Smooth to the shelving brink a 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 first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad;... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...thought : swift shrinking I check my steps, and view the broken scene. 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... | |
| James Thomson - Seasons - 1826 - 438 pages
..., I check my steps , and view the broken scene. Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Bolls fair and placid; where collected all In one impetuous torrent, down the steep H thundering shoots , and shakes the country round. At first an azure sheet, it rushes broad... | |
| James Thomson - 1826 - 268 pages
...back, 1 check my steps, and view the broken scene. Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Kblls fair and placid; where collected all In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering sboots. and shakes the country round. \t first an azure sheet, it rushes broad;... | |
| Wales - 1828 - 348 pages
...these nervous lines of Thomson seem to describe much of the scene : " 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... | |
| William Morgan Kinsey - Portugal - 1828 - 630 pages
...sufficient degree of maturity. PEASANT PLAYING ON A GUITAR. • LETTER XIII. Smooth to the shelving bank 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... | |
| William Morgan Kinsey - Portugal - 1828 - 648 pages
...maturity. PEASANT PLAYING ON A GUITAR. LETTER XIII. Smooth to the shelving bank a copious flood I Mil Is 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... | |
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