 A point at first It peer'd above those waves ; a point so small, I just perceived it, fix'd where all was floating ; And when a bubble eross'd it, the blue film Expanded like a sky above the speck ; That speck became a hand-breadth ; day and night It...  The Poetical Works of James Montgomery - Page 21by James Montgomery - 1841Full view - About this book
 | James Montgomery - 1827 - 198 pages
...waves ; a point so small, I just perceived it, fix'd where all was floating; And when a bubble cross'd it, the blue film Expanded like a sky above the speck...day and night It spread, accumulated, and ere long 18 Presented to my view a dazzling plain, White as the moon amid the sapphire sea ; Bare at low water,... | |
 | 1827 - 808 pages
...waves; a point so small, I just perceived it, flx'd where all was floating; And when a bubble cross'd it, the blue film Expanded like a sky above the speck ; That speck became a hand-breadth ; day and niglit It spread, accumulated, and ere long Presented to my view a dau.V\n% \ta&xv, While ад t\\c... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1829 - 520 pages
...Ij»« perceived it, fix'd where all was floating; And when a bubble cross'd it, the blue film E'jwaded like a sky above the speck ; That speck became a hand-breadth; day and night l[ »pread, accumulated, and ere long Presented to my view a dazzling plain, While as the moon amid... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...waves ; a point so small, I just perceived it, fix'd where all was floating ; And when a bubble cross'd it, the blue film Expanded like a sky above the speck...dazzling plain, White as the moon amid the sapphire sea ; Ваге at low water, and as still as death, Bat when the tide came gurgling o'er the surface, Т... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...\\aves; a point so small, I just perceived il, fix'd where all was floating ; And when a bubble cross'd it, the blue film Expanded like a sky above the speck...That speck became a hand-breadth; day and night It r pread. accumulated, and ere long Prenented to my view a dazzling plain, While as the moon amid the... | |
 | 1833 - 270 pages
...waves a point so small, I just perceived it fix'd where all was floating ; And when a bubble cross'd it, the blue film Expanded like a sky above the speck...view a dazzling plain, White as the moon amid the sapphire-sea. Compared with this amazing edifice, Babel's stupendous folly, though it aim'd To scale... | |
 | 1834 - 440 pages
...waves a point so small, I just perceived it fixed where all were floating; And when a bubble cross'd it, the blue film Expanded like a sky above the speck ; That speck became a handbreadth; day and night i It spread, accumulated, and ere lonp; Presented to my view a dazzling plain, * Compared with this... | |
 | 1836 - 514 pages
...and ere long Presrnlnd to my view a dazzling plain, White as tlie moon amid the sapphire sea; Hare at low water, and as still as death, But when the tide came gurgling o'er the surface, Т was like a resurrection of the dead : From graves innumerable, punctures fine In the cióse coral,... | |
 | 1839 - 428 pages
...waves a point so small, I just perceived it fixed where all was floating ; And when a bubble crossed it, the blue film Expanded like a sky above the speck...view a dazzling plain, White as the moon amid the sapphire-sea. Compared with this amazing edifice, Babel's stupendous folly, though it aimed To scale... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1839 - 510 pages
...just perceived it, fix'd where all was floating; And when a bubble cross'd it, the blue film Kxpanded like a sky above the speck , That speck became a hand-breadth...dazzling plain, White as the moon amid the sapphire Hea; Hare at low water, and as still as death, But when the tide came gurgling o'er the surface, *T... | |
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