 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
 | Eugene Parsons (b. 1855) - 1911 - 510 pages
...shape. Gigantic cliffs, worn by erosion, have the appearance of castles and Moorish palaces, " Where fancy a thousand wondrous forms descries, More wildly great than ever pencil drew." Striking Scenery. Lieutenant Beckwith writes of " piles occasionally resembling ruins of immense churches... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 pages
...of love, And the full choir that wakes the universal grove. The cottage curs at early pilgrim bark; drew,— Rocks, torrents, gulfs, and shapes of giant...glitt'ring cliffs on cliffs, and fiery ramparts rise. Thence musing onward to the sounding shore, The lone enthusiast oft would take his way, Crown 'd with... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 422 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 fiery ramparts rise. Thence musing onward to the sounding shore, The... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...Centaur, a Pard, or a Wolf, or a Bull? ARISTOPHANES — Clouds. GERARD'S trans. (Compare Hamlet. HI. 2) 12 ER— Iliad. Bk. IX. L. 396. BRYANT'S trans. 4 He...an iron sleep, — • Slain fighting for his coun BEATTIE — Minstrel. Bk. I. 13 I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun, And in the dawn... | |
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