 Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist, and forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the...  James Thomson - Page 117by George Campbell Macaulay - 1908 - 259 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...still amid the shaggy rocks, 600 Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now Aslant the hollowed channel rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, With wild infracted course, and lessened roar, It gains a safer bed ; and steals, at last, 605 Along the mazes of the quiet vale. INVITED... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1811 - 766 pages
...considerable streams of ivater pour, amidst rocks mid stones, roaring and sounding through the shade, " and falling fast from gradual slope to slope, with wild infracted course," hasten to the lake, and, mingling with its placid flood, steal silently " Along the mazes of the quiet... | |
 | James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...: But , raging still amid the shaggy rocks , 5fow flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments , now As^int the hollow channel rapid darts ; And falling fast...slope to slope , With wild infracted course , and lessened roar , It gains a safer bed , and steals , at last , Along the mazes of the quiet vale. Invited... | |
 | George Holmes - 1801 - 238 pages
...raging still among the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now Aslant the hollowed channel rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, With wild infracted course and lessened roar, It gains a safer bed. These lines of Thomson so truly depict the scene, that I could... | |
 | 1801 - 446 pages
...raging still among the shaggy rocks, Mow flashes o'er the scattcr'd fragments, now Aslant the hollowed channel rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope. With wild infracted course snd lessened roar, It gains a safer bed. _ These lines of Thomson so truly depict the scene, that I... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 320 pages
...a ceaseless show'r. Nor can the tortur'd wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now...steals, at last, Along the mazes of the quiet vale. Invited from the cliff, to whose dark brow He clings, the steep-ascending eagle soars, With upward... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 340 pages
...a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortur'd wave here find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now...gradual slope to slope, With wild infracted course, and lessened roar, It gains a safer bed, and steals at last Along the mazes of the quiet vale. Invited... | |
 | James Thomson - 1802 - 344 pages
...forms a ceaseless shower. Nor can the tortur'd wave here find repose: But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, now...gradual slope to slope, With wild infracted course, and lessened roar, It gains a safer bed, and steals at last Along the mazes of the quiet vale. Invited... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1802 - 368 pages
...rapid darts ; And falling fast from gradual slope to slope, With wild infracted course, and lessened roar, It gains a safer bed, and steals at last Along the mazes of the quiet vale.Invited from the cliff, to whose dark brow •He clings, the steep-ascending eagle soars, With... | |
 | James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...find repose : But, raging still amid the shaggy rocks, Now flashes o'er the scatter'd fragments, DOW Aslant the hollow channel rapid darts ; And falling...gradual slope to slope, 'With wild infracted course, and lessened roar, It gains a safer hed, and steals, at last, Along the mazes of the quiet vale. Invited... | |
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