The place where we stood shook most dreadfully : after some time, the violent paroxysm ceasing, I stood up, and turning my eyes to look for Euphemia, saw only a frightful black cloud. We waited till it had passed away, when nothing but a dismal and putrid... The Family Library (Harper). - Page 3061836Full view - About this book
| Robert Bakewell - 1815 - 562 pages
...and turning my eyes to look for Euphemia, saw only a, frightful black cloud. We waited till it had passed away, when nothing but a dismal and putrid lake was to be seen where the city once stood." The extent to which earthquakes produce sensible effects on the waters of springs and lakes in distant... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 470 pages
...cloud was passed away : then turning to look for the city, it was totally sunk. Wonderful to tell ! nothing but a dismal and putrid lake was to be seen where it stood. We looked about to find some one that could tell us of its sad catastrophe, but could see... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...cloud was passed away : then, turning to look for the city, it was totally sunk. Wonderful to tell ! nothing but a dismal and putrid lake was to be seen where it stood. We looked about to find some one, that could tell us of it's sad catastrophe, but could see... | |
| Robert Bakewell - 1828 - 614 pages
...obliged him to land at Lopizicum : " Here (says he) scenes of ruin every where appeared around me; but my attention was quickly turned from more remote to...moment grew louder. The place where we stood shook most dreadfully : after some time, the violent paroxysm ceasing, I stood up, and turning my eyes to... | |
| John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1832 - 820 pages
...his companions at Lopizicum. " Here," he says, " scenes of ruin appeared everywhere around me ; but my attention was quickly turned from more remote to...putrid lake was to be seen where the city once stood." If such are the effects of earthquakes, it is not surprising that the inhabitants of those countries... | |
| John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1832 - 832 pages
...his companions at Lopizicum. " Here," he says, " scenes of ruin appeared everywhere around me ; but my attention was quickly turned from more remote to...dreadfully. After some time the violent paroxysm ceased. J stood up, and turning my eyes to Euphemia, saw only a frightful black cloud. We waited till it passed... | |
| Robert Bakewell - 1833 - 604 pages
...obliged him to land at Lopizicum. " Here," says he, " scenes of ruin every where appeared around me : but my attention was quickly turned from more remote to...moment grew louder. The place where we stood shook most dreadfully. After some time, the violent paroxysm ceasing, I stood up, and turning my eyes to... | |
| William Williams Mather - 1833 - 164 pages
...scenes of ruin every where appeared around me ; bin my attention was quickly turned from remote to more contiguous danger, by a deep rumbling sound which...moment grew louder. The place where we stood shook most dreadfully : after some time, the violent paroxysm ceasing, I stood np. and turning my eye? to... | |
| William Mullinger Higgins - 1836 - 514 pages
...companions, landed at Lopizicum. " Here," he says, " scenes of ruin appeared everywhere around me ; but my attention was quickly turned from more remote to...was to be seen where the city once stood.'* Humboldt has described, with his characteristic energy, the feelings which are experienced by an individual... | |
| William Mullinger Higgins - 1838 - 426 pages
...companions, landed at Lopizicum. " Here," he says, " scenes of ruin appeared everywhere around me ; but my attention was quickly turned from more remote to...putrid lake was to be seen where the city once stood." of Mexico were as accustomed to hear the thunders roll beneath their feet, as we are to witness the... | |
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