 Gnomes ! o'er the waste you led your myriad powers, Climb'd on the whirls, and aimed the flinty showers ! Onward resistless rolls the infuriate surge, Clouds follow clouds, and mountains mountains urge ; Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts...  Historical Parallels - Page 132by Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1831 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1798 - 472 pages
...Climb'd on the whirls, and aim'd the flinty ihowers ! — Onward rcliftlefs rolls the infuriate furge, Clouds follow clouds, and mountains mountains urge ; Wave over wave the driving defert fwims, Burfts o'er their heads, inhumes their flruggling limbs ; 490 Alan mounts on man, on... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1813 - 350 pages
...minis of sand, which may be called the waves, or rather th* moving mountains, of the Desert. » • Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts o'er their heads, inhumes their struggling limbs. ***** ,And one great earthy ocean covers all. Then ceased the storm, — Night bowed his AiHhioj.i... | |
 | 1813 - 534 pages
...sand, which may be called the waves, or rather, the moving mountains, of the desert, Wave over reave the driving desert swims, Bursts o'er their heads, inhumes their struggling limbs. * » * * » "' * And one great earthy ocean covers all. Then ceased t he storm, — Nighl baited his... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 628 pages
...o'er the waste TOD led your myriad powers, Climb'd on the whirls, and aim'd the flinty showers! — Onward resistless rolls the infuriate surge, Clouds...hosts, and nations nations crush, — Wheeling in air thr winged Islands fall, And one great earthy Ocean covers all ! — F.OITOR. CHAP. XLI. THE PKESTER,... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 588 pages
...o'er the waste YOU led your myriad powers, Climu'd on the whirls, and aim'd the flinty showers! — Onward resistless rolls the infuriate surge, Clouds...over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts o'er their headi, inhumes their straggling limbs; Man mounts on man, on camels camels rush, Hosts march o'er hosts,... | |
 | Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) - 1818 - 376 pages
...mighty columns of sand, which may be called the waves, or rather the moving mountains of the desert. Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts o'er their heads, inhumes their struggling limbs. * # * # * And one great earthy ocean covers all. Then ceased the storm, — Night bowed his JEthiop... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 592 pages
...o-er the waste YOU led yuur myriad powers, Climb'd on the whirls, and aim-d the flinty showers ! — Onward resistless rolls the infuriate surge, Clouds...mounts on man, on camels camels rush, Hosts march u-er hosts, and nations nations crush, — Wheeling in air the winged islands fall, And one great earthy... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1824 - 246 pages
...Gnomes ! o'er the waste you led your myriad Climb 'd on the whirls, and aim'd the flinty showers ! Onward resistless rolls the infuriate surge, Clouds...Bursts o'er their heads, inhumes their struggling limbs ; 4,90 Man mounts on man, on camels camels rush, Hosts march o'er hosts, and nations nations crush,—... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1825 - 420 pages
...Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts o'er their heads, inhumes their struggling limbs ; 490 Man mounts on man, on camels camels rush, Hosts march...crush, — Wheeling in air the winged islands fall, Ami one great earthy ocean covers all ! — Then ceased the storm, — Night bow'd his Ethiop brow... | |
 | Caesar Otway - 1827 - 462 pages
...showers ; Onward resistless rolls the infuriate surge, Clouds follow clouds, and mountains mountain* urge ; Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts...in air, the winged islands fall — And one great sandy ocean covers all ! Nothing, indeed, as I am told, can exceed the wintry horrors of the north-westerly... | |
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