 | Nathan Drake - 1800 - 482 pages
...nature and full of originality. o Danger, whose limbs of giant mold What mortal eye can fix'd behold P Who stalks his round, an hideous form ! Howling amidst the midnight storm, Or throws him on th.i ridgy sleep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep. \ The exquisite scotch ballad of Hardyknute,... | |
 | 1813 - 706 pages
...lover of poetry can pronounce without reverence, in giving his personification of Danger, has thrown him " On the ridgy steep Of some loose, hanging rock, to sleep." We believe there are few readers who do not feel that the simple sublimity of this single image, would... | |
 | 700 pages
...lover of poetry can pronounce without reverence, in giving his personification of Danger, has thrown him " On the ridgy steep Of some loose, hanging rock, to sleep." We believe there are few readers who do not feel that the simple sublimity of this single image, would... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pages
...Fear. " Danger, whose limbs of giant mould What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? Who stalks his round, a hideous form. Howling amidst the midnight storm, Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose-hanging rock to sleep." " I see Danger, upon whose gigantic form no one can have the courage... | |
 | William Collins - 1802 - 206 pages
...fly, For, lo ! what monsters in thy train appear ! Danger, whose limbs of giant mold What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? Who stalks his round, an hideous form, Howling amidst the midnight storm ; D Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep : And with him thousand phantoms... | |
 | William Collins - 1802 - 198 pages
...fly, For, lo ! what monsters in thy train appear ! Danger, whose limbs of giant mold What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? Who stalks his round, an hideous form. Howling amidst the midnight storm ; T> Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep : And with him thousand phantoms... | |
 | Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) - 1803 - 342 pages
...For, lo, what monsters in thy train appear ! "•Danger, whose limbs of giant mould, " What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? " Who stalks his round, an hideous...ridgy steep " Of some loose hanging rock to sleep : " And with him thousand phantoms join'd, " Who prompt to deeds accurs'd the mind : " And those, the... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...fly ; Forlo, what monsters in thy train appear! Danger , whose limbs of giant mould What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? Who stalks his round , an hideous...the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep : And with him thousand phantoms join'd , Who prompt to deeds accurs'd the mind : And those , the fiends... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 166 pages
...respects, to the following description of danger : " Danger, whose limbs of giant mould What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? Who stalks his round, an hideous...ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep." 128 entire advantage of novelty to recommend it; tot there is too much originality in all the circumstances,... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 168 pages
...respects, to the following description of danger : " Danger, whose limbs of giant mould What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? Who stalks his round, an hideous...ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep." It is impossible to contemplate the image conveyed in the two last verses without those emotions of... | |
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What mortal eye can fix'd behold? Who stalks his round, an hideous form, Howling amidst the midnight storm ; Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep... 
