 Now o'er their head the whizzing whirlwinds breathe, And the live desert pants, and heaves beneath ; Tinged by the crimson sun, vast columns rise Of eddying sands, and war amid the skies, In red arcades the billowy plain surround, And whirling turrets...  Beauties of The Botanic Garden - Page 45by Erasmus Darwin - 1805 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 280 pages
...Libya : " Now o'er their heads the whizzing whirlwinds breathe And the live desert heaves and pants beneath : Tinged by the crimson sun, vast columns rise Of eddying sands and war against the skies ; In red arcades the billowy plain surround, And stalking turrets dance upon the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1814 - 494 pages
...decimated by famine, is represented on its fatal march to th^ temple of Jupiter Ammon : Now o'er their bead the whizzing whirlwinds breathe, And the live desert pants, and heaves beneath; •Ting'd by the crimson sun, vast columns rise Of eddying sands, and war amid the skies. In red arcades... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 628 pages
...i53-i55. this fearful phenomenon in the following versei of his BotanicGarden. " Now o'er their head the whizzing whirlwinds breathe, And the live desert...skies, In red arcades the billowy plain surround, And stalking turrets dance npon the ground. — Long ranks in rain their shining blades extend, To Demon-Gods... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 588 pages
...phenomenon in the following verses of his Botanic Garden. " Now o'er their bead the whizzing whirlwind* breathe, And the live desert pants, and heaves beneath...crimson sun, vast columns rise Of eddying sands, and wur amid the skies, In red arcades the billowv plain surround, And sulking turret- dance upon the ground.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...Darts from above, and tears at each fell swoop With iron fangs the decimated troop. Now o'er their head the whizzing whirlwinds breathe, And the live desert...their shining blades extend, To demon-gods their knees unhallow'd bend. Wheel in wide' circle, form in hollow square, And now they front, and now they fly... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Curiosities and wonders - 1821 - 768 pages
...and a tree of a thorny nature^ •without blossom or fruit." SANDS OF THE DESERT. Now o'er their head the whizzing whirlwinds breathe. And the live desert...skies, In red arcades the billowy plain surround, And stalking turrets dance upon the ground. DARWU. IN the pathless desert, high mounds of sand, shifting... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 592 pages
...description of this fearful phenomenon in the following verses of his Botanic Garden. " Now o'er their head the whizzing whirlwinds breathe, And the live desert...skies, In red arcades the billowy plain surround, And stalking turrets dance upon the ground. — Long ranks in rain their shining blades extend, To Demon-Gods... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Wonder - 1821 - 788 pages
...without blossom or fruit." SANDS OF THE DESERT. Now o'ei their head the whizzing whirlwinds breatht, And the live desert pants, and heaves beneath ; Tinged...columns rise Of eddying sands, and war amid the skies, ID red arcades the billowy plain surround, And stalking turrets dance upon the ground. BARWLN. IN the... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1824 - 246 pages
...From above, and tears at each fell swoop With iron fangs the decimated troop. " Now o'er their head the whizzing whirlwinds breathe, And the live desert...surround, And whirling turrets stalk along the ground. And whirling turrets. \. 478. " At one o'clock we alighted among some acacia trees at Waadi el Halboub,... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - History - 1831 - 428 pages
...destruction are powerfully though rather extravagantly described by Darwin : — " Now o'er their head the whizzing whirlwinds breathe, And the live desert...sun, vast columns rise Of eddying sands, and war amid tile skies, In red arcades the billowy plain surround. And stalking turrets dance upon the ground.... | |
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