| James Thomson - 1816 - 256 pages
...pure 5 Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! The keener tempests rise : and fuming dun From all the livid east, or piercing north, Thick clouds ascend...vapoury deluge lies, to snow congeal'd. Heavy they toll their fleecy World along ; And the sky saddens with the gather'd storm. Through the hush'd air... | |
| Richard Lobb - 1817 - 430 pages
...elegantly accurate, than the following description '. The keener tempests rise: and, foaming dun From all the livid east, or piercing north, Thick clouds ascend...whose capacious womb A vapoury deluge lies, to snow congealed. Heaty they roll their fleecy world along ; And the sky saddens with the gathered storm.... | |
| James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - 1818 - 316 pages
...pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! The keener tempests rise : and fuming dun From all the livid east, or piercing north, Thick clouds ascend...congeal'd. Heavy they roll their fleecy world along ; And tbe sky saddens with the gather'd storm. Through the hush'd air the whitening shower deAt first thin... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! The keener tempests rise : and, fuming dun Prom all T+ the gather'd storm. Through the hush'd air the whitening shower descends, At first thin wavering ;... | |
| Herodotus - 1821 - 478 pages
...XXXIII. On this subject of the HyperboMartial beautifully calls snow, densum tacitarum vellus aquarum. In whose capacious womb A vapoury deluge lies to snow...congeal'd ; Heavy they roll their fleecy world along. — Thomson. *1 Hyperboreans^ — It appears from the Scholiast on Pindar, that the Greeks called the... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! The keener tempests rise : and fuming dun From all the livid east, or piercing north, Thick clouds ascend...their fleecy world along; And the sky saddens with the gather'd storm. Through the hush'd air the whitening shower descends, At first thin wavering; till... | |
| 1843 - 684 pages
...WILLIAM RoaERSoN,o/<Ae Royal Observatory, Greenwich. "THE keener tempests rise; the fuming dun, From all the livid east, or piercing north, Thick clouds ascend...lies, to snow congeal'd. Heavy they roll their fleecy ward along, And the sky saddens with the gathering storm. Through the hush'd air the whitening shower... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...pure ; Sai-rtd. substantial, never-failing blist ! The keener tempests rise: and fuming dun From all the livid east, or piercing north. Thick clouds ascend...their fleecy world along ; And the sky saddens with the gather'd storm. Through the husn'dair the whitening shower «lescttids. At first thin wavering... | |
| James Thomson - 1824 - 256 pages
...pure ; Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss ! The keener tempests rise : and fuming dun From all the livid east or piercing north, Thick clouds ascend...deluge lies, to snow congeal'd. Heavy they roll their fleeey world along ; And the sky saddens with the gather'd storm. Through the hush'i air the whitening... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...whole precipitated air Down in a torrent. SNOW. The keener tempests rise ; and fuming dun, From all , vap'ry deluge lies, to snow congeal'd. Heavy they roll their fleecy world along, And the sky saddens... | |
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