 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 770 pages
...destroy ; Trqycharg'd the first, and Hector first of" Troy. As from some mountain's craggy forehead turn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne (Which...the stubborn stone a torrent rends) Precipitate the ponderous moss descends : From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds; At every shock the crackling... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...Svraran. Ibid. I beg peculiar attention to the following simile for a reason that shall be mentioned : ( Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends) Precipitate...descends; From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds ; At every shock the crackling wood resounds; Still gath'ring force, it smokes; and, urg'd amain, Whirls,... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 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...descends; From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds: "At every shock the crackling wood resounds; Still gath'ring force, it smokes; and, urg'd amain, Whirls,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 434 pages
...way ; Fierce they drove on, impatient to destroy ; Troy cbarg'd the first, and Hector first of Troy. As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's...fragment flies with fury borne, (Which from the stubborn atone a torrent rends) Precipitate the pond'rous mass descends; From steep to steep the rolling ruin... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Aesthetics - 1819 - 458 pages
...charg'd the first, and Hector first of Troy, As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's romid fragment flies with fury borne, (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rend*) Precipitate the pond'rous mass descends; From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds ; At every... | |
 | Homer - 1822 - 342 pages
...way: Tierce they drove on, impatient to destroy; Troy charged the first, and Hector first of Troy. 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; At every shock the crackling... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 348 pages
...way : Fierce they drove on, impatient to destroy; Troy charged the first, and Hector first of Troy. 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 ; At every shock the crackling... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1822 - 486 pages
...eharg'd thr first, and Hectnr first of Troy. As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn A rock's huge fragment flies, with fury borne, (Which from the stubborn...Precipitate the pond'rous mass descends ; From steep to stei p the rolling ruin bounds, At every shock the crackling wood resounds; Riill gnth'ring strenRth,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1822 - 344 pages
...charg'd the first, and Hector first of Troy. As from some mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rook's round fragment flies, with fury borne, (Which from...the stubborn stone a torrent rends) Precipitate the ponderous mass descends: From steep to steep the rolling ruin bounds; At every shock the crackling... | |
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1825 - 286 pages
...wayi Fierce they drove on, impatient to destroy ; Tn.y 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... | |
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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... 
