 | Cabinet - 1808 - 524 pages
...flame? Who that, from Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave Through mountains,...high-born soul Disdains to rest her heaven-aspiring wing a 3 Beneath its native quarry. Tir'd of earth And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft Through fields... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave Thro' mountains, plains, thrd' empires black with shafle, And continents of sand ! will turn his gaze To mark the windings, of a scanty till That murmurs at his feet ? The high-born soul Disdains 'to rest her heav'n aspiring wing Beneath... | |
 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1809 - 406 pages
...Who that, from Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey The Nile or Ganges rolling' his bright wave Through mountains,...windings of a scanty rill, That murmurs at his feet! Pleasures of Imagination, book 1. " The meditations," says a very ingenious writer, (speaking of the... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...wide horizon, to survey " The Nile or Ganges roll his wasteful tide, " Thro' mountains, plains, thro' empires black with. shade, " And continents of sand,...windings of a scanty rill " That murmurs at his feet ?" Akenaide. Even ideal contemplations will sometimes affect us in a similar manner. Such are the ideas... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...flame ? Who that, from Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade 180 And continents of sand ; will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs... | |
 | Classical philology - 1828 - 358 pages
...perhaps A kenside's picture (Pleasures of Imagination, book i.) of Nilus or Ganges rolling his broad wave Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, And continents of sand. Compare Thomson's description of the Nile, in his Summer, which is greatly in the luxuriant manner... | |
 | Mark Akenside - Imagination - 1818 - 210 pages
...Who that, from Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey , > Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave, • • ^ ••'...mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, = •• 180 And continents of sand ; will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1818 - 216 pages
...flame ? Who that, from Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave, Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, ISO And continents of sand ; will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...flame ? Who that, from Alpine heights, his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon, to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave Through mountains;...Beneath its native quarry. Tir'd of Earth And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft Through fields of air ; pursues the flying storm ; Rides on the vollied... | |
 | 610 pages
...pre-eminence. " Who that from Alpine heights his labouring eje Sbools round the wide horizon to survey Nilus or Ganges rolling his bright wave Through mountains,...through empires black with shade, And continents of saud, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill, That murmurs at his feet?" If the course... | |
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Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, And continents of sand, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet? 
