| William Gilpin - 1789 - 430 pages
...ailes , une feuille qui tombe , la moindre chofe , un fon prefque fuffit pour l'alai-mer : That foimd , Which from the mountain, previous to the ftorm, Rolls...o'er the muttering earth , difturbs the flood , And shakes thé foreft-leaf without a breath. Précurfeur de l'orage , un bruit fe fait entendre , Qui... | |
| James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - English poetry - 1793 - 308 pages
...They furious fpring, A boding filence reigns, Dread thro' the dun expanfe ; fave the dull found That from the mountain, previous to the ftorm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth, difturbs the flood, And (hakes the foreft-leaf without a breath. Prone, to the loweft vale, the aerial tribes Defcend : the... | |
| James Thomson - 1803 - 330 pages
...furious fpring. ', A boding filence reigns, Dread thro' the dun expanfe ; fave the dull found That from the mountain, previous to the ftorm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth; difturbs the flood, And makes' the foreft-lea'f without a breath. Prone, to the loweft vale, the aerial tribes Defceud : the... | |
| William Gilpin - 1808 - 334 pages
...the mountain, previous to the florm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth, difturbs the flood, And makes the foreft-leaf without a breath. This tremulous fhudder...and taken up on the other. This is perhaps the moft pifturefque form, which water aflumes; as it affords the painter an opportunity of throwing in thofe... | |
| William Gilpin - Cumberland (England) - 1808 - 338 pages
...all over; the mereft trifle, a frifldng fly, a falling leaf, almoft a found alarms it; that found, Which from the mountain, previous to the ftorm, Rolls...o'er the muttering earth, difturbs the flood, And makes the foreft-leaf without a breath. This tremulous fhudder is fometimes even ilill more partial... | |
| William Gilpin - Cumberland (England) - 1808 - 374 pages
...falling leaf, almoft a found alarms it; that found, Which from the mountain, previous to the fiorm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth, difturbs the flood,...fhakes the foreft-leaf without a breath. This tremulous fliudder is fometimes even ftill more partial : It will run in lengthened parallels, and feparate the... | |
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