 | 1803 - 400 pages
...which it meets with among its native mountains, it is restless, and fretful ; quick in its turnings, and unsteady in its course. Now it is a roaring cataract, tearing up, and overturning whatsoever obstructs its career, and tumbling, as if desperate, with precipitation down a rock. It... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 354 pages
...celebrated natural historian Pliny. or turns a little mill.. Gathering strength in its youth, it becomes wild and impetuous; impatient of the restraints which it still meets with among its native mountains, it is restless and fretful; quick in its turnings, and unsteady in its... | |
 | John Robison - 1822 - 736 pages
...of a meadow; it waters a garden, or turns a little mill. Gathering strength in its youth, it becomes wild and impetuous. Impatient of the restraints which...mountains, it is restless and fretful; quick in its turnings, and unsteady in its course. Now it is a roaring cataract, tearing up and overturning whatever... | |
 | John Robison - 1822 - 766 pages
...meets with in the hollows among the mountains, it is restless and fretful ; quick in \ its turnings, and unsteady in its course. Now it is a roaring cataract,...up and overturning whatever opposes its progress, and it shoots headlong down from a rock ; then it becomes a sullen and gloomy pool, buried in the bottom... | |
 | 1823 - 862 pages
...of a meadow; it waters a garden, or turns a little mill. Gathering strength in its youth, it becomes wild and impetuous. Impatient of the restraints which...mountains, it is restless and fretful ; quick in its turnings, and unsteady in its course. Now it is a roaring cataract, tearing up and overturning whatever... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 344 pages
...becomes wild and impetuous. Impatient of the restraints which it still meets with in the hollows of the mountains, it is restless and fretful, quick in...up and overturning whatever opposes its progress, and it shoots headlong down a rock ; then it becomes a sullen, gloomy pool, buried in the bottom of... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 510 pages
...flowers of a meadow, it waters a garden, or turns a mill. Gathering strength in its youth, it becomes wild and impetuous. Impatient of the restraints which it still meets with in the hollows of the mountains, it is restless and fretful, quick in its turning, and unsteady in its course. Now... | |
 | 1846 - 392 pages
...restraint it meets with in the hollows of the mountains, it is restless and fretful, quick in its turnings, and unsteady in its course. Now it is a roaring cataract,...up and overturning whatever opposes its progress, and it shoots headlong down a rock; then it becomes a gloomy, sullen pool, buried in the bottom of... | |
 | John Dwyer (Lithographer.) - 1847 - 172 pages
...a garden or turns a little mill: gathering strength in its youth, it becomes wild and impetuous of restraints which it still meets with ; in the hollows,...mountains, it is restless and fretful, quick in its turnings, and unsteady in its course : now it is a roaring cataract, tearing up and overturning whatever... | |
 | John Leifchild - 1849 - 276 pages
...restraints it has met with in its original mountain home, it is restless and fretful, quick in its turnings, and unsteady in its course. Now it is a roaring cataract,...opposes its progress, as it shoots headlong down from a beetling rock. Then it becomes a sullen and a gloomy pool, buried in the bottom of a shady or stony... | |
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Its beginnings are insignificant, and its infancy is frivolous: it plays among the flowers of a meadow, it waters a garden, or turns a little mill. Gathering strength, in its youth it becomes wild and impetuous. Impatient of the restraints which it still... 
