 | Homer - Achilles (Greek mythology) - 1796 - 402 pages
...drove on, impatient to deftroy; Troy charg'd the firft, and Heftor firft of Troy. 190 As from foule mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne, Ver. 1 8 6.] Homer Gmply affirms, Spears quiver'd in the grafp of warriour hands : fo that the illumination... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - English language - 1799 - 156 pages
...Contingat geminas patulo curvamine ripas *. A Continued rapidity, with a fudden ftop : As from fome mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne$ From fteep to fteep the rolling ruin bounds ; At ev'ry mock the crackling wood refounds ; Still gath'ring... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...way : Fierce they drove on, impatient to destroy ; Troy charg'd the first, and, Hector first of Troy. As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn A rock's...fury borne, (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent sends) Precipitate the pond'rous mass descends, From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds, At ev'ry... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1802 - 514 pages
..." Fierce they drove on, impatient to destroy; " Troy charg'd the first, and Hector first of Troy. " As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn " A rock's...stubborn stone a torrent rends), " Precipitate the ponderous mass descends; " From steep to steep, the rolling ruin bounds, " At every shock the crackling... | |
 | James Johnson - China - 1806 - 154 pages
...like a rock rolling down the side of a mountain. ' As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, . c. 'A rock's round fragment flies with fury borne, '...From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds, * At every shock the crackling wood resounds; ' Still gathering force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, ' Leaps,... | |
 | Homerus - 1807 - 568 pages
...way: Fierce they drove on, impatient to destroy; Troy charg'd the first, and Hector first of Troy. 1QO As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's...the stubborn stone a torrent rends), Precipitate the ponderous mass descends; From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds; 190 At every shock the crackling... | |
 | James Johnson - Voyages and travels - 1807 - 430 pages
...of them come thundering; <Jown into the valley, to the astonishment and terror of the inhabitants. " As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's....fury borne, Which from. the stubborn stone a torrent remls; • .. Precipitate the pond'rous uus* descends ; . From Ladder Hill to High Knoll. From steep... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1807 - 588 pages
...they drove on, impatient to deftroy ; Troy charg'd the firft, and He&or firft of Troy. As from fome mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies with fury borne, CH. 19-j COMPARISONS. 201 • '• * "§* i* (Which from the fiubborn flone a torrent rends) Precipitate... | |
 | Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...way: Fierce they drove on, impatient to destroy; 189 Troy charg'd the first, and Hector first of Troy. As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury horne, (Which from the stuhhorn stone a torrent rends) Precipitate the ponderous mass descends : From... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 760 pages
...way : Fierce they drove on, impatient to destroy ; Troy tharg'd the first, and Hector first of Troy. As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's...with fury borne ( Which from the stubborn stone a tor« nt rends) Precipitate the ponderous mass descends : From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds;... | |
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As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies with fury borne, (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends,) Precipitate the... 
