| James Thomson - English poetry - 1854 - 312 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 the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad;... | |
| Robert Blakey - Fishes - 1854 - 218 pages
...Cascade, amply verify the nnagery of Thompson. " Smooth to the shelving brink the copious flood Huns 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 issues broad,... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...thought : swift-shrinking I check my steps, and view the broken scone. 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... | |
| Charles Godfrey Leland - Dreams - 1856 - 292 pages
...; swift shrinking hack, I check my steps and view the hroken 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... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...swift-shrinking I check my steps, and view the broken scene. Smooth U> the shelving brink a copious flood Bolls vent the @ H steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes brood... | |
| Q. K. Philander Doesticks - 1857 - 226 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 Tt thundering shoots, and shakes the country round At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad... | |
| Thomas Rose (topographical writer.) - 1858 - 420 pages
...waterfall, by Thomson, applies with singular fidelity to this cascade : " 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 - 1858 - 458 pages
...back, 1 check my steps, and view the broken scene. Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood 600 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... | |
| Robert Blakey - Fishing - 1858 - 228 pages
...Cascade, amply verity the nnagery oi Thompson. " Smooth to the shelving brink the copious flood Runs 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 issues broad,... | |
| Robert Blakey - 1860 - 228 pages
...Cascade, amply verify the nnagery of Thompson. " Smooth to the shelving brink the copious flood Runs 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 issues broad,... | |
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