 | James Thomson - Gift books - 1861 - 480 pages
...roaring Andes, huge descends The mighty Orellana. Scarce the Muse 840 Dares stretch her wing o'er this enormous mass Of rushing water; scarce she dares attempt...unabated force, In silent dignity they sweep along, X And traverse realms unknown, and blooming wilds, ) And fruitful deserts, worlds of solitude ! Where... | |
 | James Thomson - 1862 - 272 pages
...roaring Andes, huge descends The mighty Orellana/f* Scarce the muse Dares stretch her wing o'er this enormous mass Of rushing water; scarce she dares attempt...expanse, Continuous depth, and wondrous length of course, * The river that runs through Siam; on whose banks a vast multitude ol those insects called fire-flies... | |
 | Carl Friedrich Koch - 1863 - 1112 pages
...(trinken <"</)• etc. — 5) Die Beziehung, in tvelcher eine Behauptung gilt, Ver§. 425. gleichuiig: The sealike Plata, to whose dread expanse, continuous...wondrous length, of course, our floods are rills. Th. sum. 842. It is ten to one , that you will offend by your officiousness. Wb. — 6) Preis, Tauschmittel:... | |
 | Francis Young (F.R.G.S.), W. B. B. Stevens - 1864 - 264 pages
...dread expanse, Continueus depth, and wondrous length of course, Our floods arc rills. With unalmted force, In silent dignity they sweep along, And traverse realms unknown and hloomlng wilds, And fruitful deserts, worlds of sol,tude, Where the sun smiles and seasons teem 'n... | |
 | John Olding Butler - 1866 - 208 pages
...ORELLANA. Scarce the muse Dares stretch her wing o'er this enormous mass Of rushing water ; ^carce she dares attempt The sea-like PLATA ; to whose dread...and wondrous length of course, Our floods are rills. The Seasons — Summer. GUIANA. The NE part of S. America includes those portions of Guiana which belong... | |
 | James Thomson - Poets, English - 1868 - 416 pages
...roaring Andes, huge descends The mighty Orellana.2 Scarce the Muse 840 Dares stretch her wing o'er this enormous mass Of rushing water ; scarce she dares...they sweep along, And traverse realms unknown, and blooming wilds, And fruitful desarts, worlds of solitude, Where the sun smiles and seasons teem in... | |
 | James Thomson - 1869 - 178 pages
...roaring Andes, huge descends The mighty Orellana.* Scarce the muse £10 Oares stretch her wing o'er this enormous mass Of rushing water ; scarce she dares...course, Our floods are rills. With unabated force, S.15 In silent dignity they sweep along, And traverse realms unknown, and blooming wilds. And fruitful... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1869 - 414 pages
...idea of its being a water-shed from inland ; for it seems all that the poet Thomson describes it— " The sea-like Plata, to whose dread expanse, Continuous...wondrous length of course, Our floods are rills." Indeed it is an enormous basin of water, from its month of a hundred and fifty miles wide, between... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Paraguay - 1870 - 528 pages
...According to some, . j the next projection, the Punto del Este, is the true portal of that river, " to whose dread expanse, Continuous depth, and wondrous length of course, Our floods are rills." The fixed white light of Maldonado, dim as that of any coaler, has been compared with a sentinel placed... | |
 | James Thomson - 1873 - 758 pages
...stretch her wing o'er this enormous mass Of rushing water ; scarce she dares attempt The sea-like Plaja ; to whose dread expanse, Continuous depth, and wondrous...they sweep along, And traverse realms unknown, and blooming wilds, And fruitful deserts, worlds of solitude, Where the sun smiles and seasons teem in... | |
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Dares stretch her wing o'er this enormous mass Of rushing water ; scarce she dares attempt The sea-like Plata ; to whose dread expanse, Continuous depth, and wondrous length of course, Our floods are rills. 
