 ... entirely ceased ; where the precipices, composed entirely of rocks, rise perpendicularly above him ; while he views beneath him all the combat of the elements ; clouds at his feet ; and thunders darting upwards from their bosoms below.* A thousand...  A History of the Earth and Animated Nature - Page 111810Full view - About this book
 | 1792 - 532 pages
...region, where vegetation has wholly ceafed; where the precipices, compofed entirely of rocks, rife perpendicularly above him ; while he views beneath...elements ; clouds at his feet ; and thunders darting up from their bolbm below f. A thouiand meteors, which are never feen on the plain, prefent themfelves.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1816 - 468 pages
...ascends into a purer and a serener region, where vegetation is entirely ceased ; where the precipices, composed entirely of rocks, rise perpendicularly above...elements ; clouds at his feet ; and thunders darting upwards from their bosoms below.* A thousand meteors, which are never seen on the plain, present themselves.... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 418 pages
...vegetation has wholly ceased; where the precipices, composed entirely of rocks, rise perpendicularly ahove him ; while he views beneath him all the combat of...elements ; clouds at his feet ; and thunders darting up from their bosom below '. A thousand meteors, which are never seen on the plain, present themselves.... | |
 | Jacob Abbot Cummings - Atlases - 1820 - 346 pages
...and serener region, where vegetation has entirely ceased ; where the precipices. composed ../yitirely of rocks, rise perpendicularly above him ; while he...the combat of the elements : clouds at his feet, and lightnings darting upward from their bosoms below. A thousand meteors, which are never seen on the... | |
 | William Russell - English language - 1823 - 160 pages
...ascends into a purer and serener region, where vegetation has entirely ceased ; where the precipices, composed entirely of rocks, rise perpendicularly above...combat of the elements, — clouds at his feet, and lightning darting upward from their bosoms below. A thousand meteors which are never seen on the plains,... | |
 | William Russell - English language - 1823 - 164 pages
...ascends into a purer and serener region, where vegetation has entirely ceased; where the precipices, composed entirely of rocks, rise perpendicularly above...while he views, beneath him, all the combat of the elements,—clouds at his feet, and lightning darting upward from their bosoms below. A thousand meteors... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1824 - 510 pages
...ascends into a purer and serener region ; where vegetation is entirely ceased ; where the precipices, composed entirely of rocks, rise perpendicularly above...feet ; and thunders darting upward from their bosoms below.t A thousand * Li-ttres Philosophiques sur la Formation, &c. p. 196. t UHoa. vol. i. •-_ ,f... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Natural history - 1825 - 434 pages
...ascends into a purer and serener region, where vegetation is entirely ceased; where the precipices, composed entirely of rocks, rise perpendicularly above...never seen on the plain, present themselves. Circular rainbows;f mock suns; the shadow of the mountain projected upon the body of the air;J and the traveller's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...ascends into a purer and eerener region, where vegetation is entirely ceased — where the precipices, ight to be here. Ah! whither is my Salgar gone ! With thee I elemente, clouds at his feet, and thunders darting upwards from their bosoms below. A thousand meteors,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 pages
...ascends into a purer and a serener region, where vegetation is entirely ceased ; where the precipices, composed entirely of rocks, rise perpendicularly above...feet, and thunders darting upward from their bosoms below.3 A thousand meteors, which are never seen on the plain, present themselves. Circular rainbows... | |
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