 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 322 pages
...the Alps, the load of the earth, that covered many countries, nnd readied their arms from the occean to the Black Sea ; this huge mass of stone is softened...dissolved as a tender cloud into rain. Here stood the African mountains, and Atlas with his top above the clouds; there was frozen Caucasus, and Taurus,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1808 - 348 pages
...gun, and their place ia no where found." — '* Here stood the Alps, the loud of the earth, that cowed many countries, and reached their arms from the ocean to the Black Sea; this hnge mass of Etone it softened and dissolved as a tender clond into raia. Here stood the African mountains,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1809 - 312 pages
...melted as wax before the sun, and their place is no •where found. Here stood the Alps, the load of the earth, that covered many countries, and reached their...dissolved as a tender cloud into rain. Here stood the African mountains, and Atlas with his top above the No. 147. THE SPECTATOR. 101 clouds ; there was... | |
 | 1815 - 444 pages
...as wax before the sun, and their place is no where to be found. Here stood the Alps, the load of the earth, that covered many countries, and reached their...dissolved, as a tender cloud into rain. Here stood the African mountains, and Atlas with his top ahove the clouds ; there was frozen Cancasus, and Tanrus,... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 606 pages
...wax before the sun, and their place is no " where to be found. Here stood the Alps, the load " of the earth, that covered many countries, and " reached...Black " Sea : this huge mass of stone is softened and dis" solved, as a tender cloud into rain. Here stood " the African mountains, and Atlas with his top... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 316 pages
...melted as wax before the sun, and " their place is no where found." Here stood the Alps, the load of the earth, that covered many countries, and reached their...dissolved as a tender cloud into rain. Here stood the African mountains, and Atlas with his top above the clouds ; there was frozen Caucasus, and Taurus,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...Here stood the Alps', the load of the «uth', that covered many countries', and reached their wins from the Ocean' to the black Sea' ; this huge mass...is softened and dissolved' as a tender cloud into flu'n'. Here stood the African' mountains, and Atlas *rth his top above the clouds' ; there was frozen... | |
 | Books - 1822 - 386 pages
...and their place is no where found. Here stood the Alps, a prodigious range of stone, the load of the earth, that covered many countries, and reached their...dissolved, as a tender cloud into rain. Here stood the African mountains, and Atlas with his top above the clouds. There was frozen Caucasus, and Taurus,... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 386 pages
...and their place is no where found. Here stood the Alps, a prodigious range of stone, the load of the earth, that covered many countries, and reached their...dissolved, as a tender cloud into rain. Here stood the African mountains, and Atlas with his top above the clouds. There was frozen Caucasus, and Taurus,... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...and "their place is nowhere found." Here s'oml the Alps, the load of the earth, that covered ma")' Westminster-abbey,* in which, says he, there are...fancies. He told me at the same time, that he observed l'e^e stood the African mountains, and Atlas wit'' I'" top above the clouds ; there was frozen Caucasus,... | |
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Sea; this huge mass of stone is softened and dissolved as a tender cloud into rain. Here stood the African mountains, and Atlas with his top above the clouds: there was frozen Caucasus, and Taurus, and Imaus, and the mountains of Asia ; and yonder, towards... 
