 | James Thomson, Samuel Johnson - 1813 - 180 pages
...check'my steps, and view the broken scene. Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair, and placid; where collected all, In one impetuous...steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country rou&A At first, an azure sheet it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it fails, And... | |
 | William Bingley - 1814 - 572 pages
...Montgomeryshire. Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood ' . Rolls fair and placid ; where collected, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep, It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first an azure sheet it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees as prone it falls, .:• . And... | |
 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - Laziness - 1818 - 316 pages
...check my steps, and view the broken scene. Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair, and placid ; where collected all, In one impetuous...It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round . At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from... | |
 | John Milford - Europe - 1818 - 300 pages
...forming a thick cloud in the air. These beautiful lines of the poet seemed to describe the scene, " In one impetuous torrent down the steep ,. It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round; At first an azure sheet, it rushes broad : Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the... | |
 | Steam boat companion - 1820 - 174 pages
...awaits his pilgrimage to the falls of Clyde. " Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair and placid ; where, collected all In one impetuous...It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as from it falls, And, from the... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...and placid ; where collected all, * A young lady who died at the age of eighteen, in the year 1738. d At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...check my steps, and view the broken scene. Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood 1!oils fair, and placid; where collected all, In one impetuous...It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, And from the... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...with half his people ! WATERFALL. Thomson. SMOOTH to the shelving brink, a copious flood Rolls fair and placid ; where, collected all, In one impetuous...It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees as prone it falls, And from the... | |
 | Mary Linwood - 1822 - 30 pages
...eternal day. Np. 51. WATER-FALL. Ruy s dale. SMOOTH to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair and placid ; where collected all In one impetuous...It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad; Then whit'ning by degrees, as prone it ¡alls And from the... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 278 pages
...check my steps, and view the broken scene. Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair, and placid ; where collected all, In one impetuous...torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes thecountry round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it... | |
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Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair and placid; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. 
