 | Natural history - 1822 - 192 pages
...stood the Alps a prodigious range of Stone,' the Load of the Earih — 'that covered tnany coui'tfies, and reached their arms from the Ocean to the Black...mass of stone, is softened and dissolved; as a tender eloud into rain. Here stood the African mountains, and Atlas with his top above the clouds. There was... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 426 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 arms from the ocean to the Black Sea ; {his huge mass of stone is softened and dissolved, as a tender cloud into rain. Here stood the African... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 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,... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 414 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,... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 438 pages
...their place is no where found." Here stood the Alps, the load of the earth, that covered VOL. II. D d many countries, and reached their arms from the ocean...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,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 886 pages
...melted as wax before the sun, and tlu.tr place is nowhere found. Here stood the Alps, tin load of the earth, that covered many countries, and reached their...from the ocean to the Black sea. This huge mass of «tone is softened and dissolved, as a tender cloud into rain. Here stood the African mountains, and... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 278 pages
...are melted as wax before the sun, and their place is no where found. Here stood the Alps, the load of 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, and... | |
 | Josiah Priest - Adventure and adventurers - 1825 - 660 pages
...their place is no where to be found. Here stood the Alp>, a prodigious range of stone, the load of the earth, that covered many countries, and reached their arms from the ocean to tiie Black Sea : this huge mass of stone is softened and dissolved as a tender cloud into rain. Here... | |
 | Abraham Thompson Lowe - Geography - 1831 - 232 pages
...as wax before the sun, and their place is no where found. 13. Here stood the Alps, the load of the earth, that covered many countries, and reached their...softened and dissolved as a tender cloud into rain. 14. Here stood the African mountains, and Atlas with his top above the clouds ; there was frozen Caucasus,... | |
 | John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...as wax before the sun, and their place is no where found." 5. " 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,... | |
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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... 
