 Where, midst the changeful scenery, ever new, Fancy a thousand wondrous forms descries, More wildly great than ever pencil drew, Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size, And glitt'ring cliffs on cliffs, and fiery ramparts, rise.  Astronomy, as it is Known at the Present Day: With an Account of the Nature ... - Page 111by George G. Carey - 1825 - 166 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pages
...these, a depth of twenty thousand feet of everlasting ice. MONTSERRAT. [See Plate, Jfo. 18.] Here, 'midst the changeful scenery, ever new, Fancy a thousand...drew; Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant iize, And glittering cliffs on cliffs, anJ Aery ramparts rise. BKATTIJE. THIS Spanish mountain, which... | |
 | 1822 - 418 pages
...snowy waste at even, to view The cloud stupendous, from th'Atlantic wave High-tow'ring, sail along th' horizon blue : Where 'midst the changeful scenery,...And glitt'ring cliffs on cliffs, and fiery ramparts Thence musing onward to the sounding shore, The lone Enthusiast oft would take his way, List'ning with... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 280 pages
...roam'd the snowy waste at even, to view The cloud stupendous, from the' Atlantic wave High-towering, sail along the' horizon blue; Where, midst the changeful...Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size, And glittering cliffs on cliffs,and fieryramparts rise. LIV. Thence musing onward to the sounding shore>... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 560 pages
...roam'd the snowy waste at even, to view The cloud stupendous, from the' Atlantic wave High towering, sail along the' horizon blue : Where midst the changeful...descries More wildly great than ever pencil drew, Eocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size, And glittering cliffs on cliffs, and fiery ramparts... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 408 pages
...roam'd the snowy waste, at even, to view The cloud, stupendous, from the Atlantic wave High towering, sail along the horizon blue: Where, 'midst the changeful...Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes, of giant size, And glittering cliffs on cliffs, and fiery ramparts rise. VI. Minstrel, Part i. st. Hii. In tropical climates... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 478 pages
...snowy waste at ev*n, to view The cloud stupendous, from th' Atlantic wave High-tow'ring, sail along th' horizon blue : Where, 'midst the changeful scenery,...Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size, And glitt'riug cliffs on cliffs, and fiery ramparts rise. Thence musing onward to the sounding shore, The... | |
 | William Otter - 1824 - 700 pages
...elevated in the very regions of ether, high above all the countries and kingdoms of the" earth: — • *Where 'midst the changeful scenery, ever new, Fancy a thousand wondrous forms decries More wildly great than pencil ever drew ; Rocks, torrents, woods, and gulfs, and shapes of... | |
 | 1826 - 300 pages
...snowy waste at even, to view The cloud stupendous, from th' Atlantic wave High-towering, sail along th' horizon blue : Where midst the changeful scenery, ever new, Fancy a thousand wonderous forms descries, More wildly great than ever pencil drew, Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 809 pages
...Swift. Changes will befall, and friends may part, But distance only cannot change the heart. Cowper. Where 'midst the changeful scenery ever new. Fancy a thousand wondrous forms descries. Beatlie. Upon a tone, A touch of her's, his blood would ebb and flow. And his check change tempestuously... | |
 | James Beattie - 1831 - 330 pages
...snowy waste at even, to view The cloud stupendous, from th' Atlantic wave High-towering, sail along th' horizon blue: Where, midst the changeful scenery,...Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant size, And glittering cliffs on cliffs, and f1ery ramparts rise. LIV. Thence musing onward to the sounding shore,... | |
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