| Joseph Taylor - 1838 - 672 pages
...constrain'd Between two meeting crags, it bursts away. Where rocks and woods o'er-hang the turbid stream, There gathering triple force, rapid and deep, It boils! and wheels! and foams ! and thunders through! FALLS OF NIAGARA. THOMSON. ABOUT six leagues from the fort of Niagara, in Canada, is the greatest cataract... | |
| James Thomson - 1840 - 174 pages
...constrained Between two meeting hills, it bursts away, Where rocks and woods o'erhang the turbid st ream ; There gathering triple force, rapid and deep, It boils,...through. Nature! great parent! whose unceasing hand 106 Rolls round the Seasons of the changeful year, How mighty, how majestic are thy works ! With what... | |
| James Thomson - 1841 - 194 pages
...constrained Between two meeting hills, it bursts away, Where rocks and woods o'erhang the turbid stream ; There gathering triple force, rapid and deep, It boils,...through. Nature ! great parent ! whose unceasing hand 106 Rolls round the Seo.sons of the changeful year, How mighty, how majestic are thy works ! With what... | |
| James Thomson - 1841 - 352 pages
...constrain'd Between two meeting hills, it bursts away, Where rocks and woods o'erhang the turbid stream ; There gathering triple force, rapid, and deep, It...boils, and wheels, and foams, and thunders through." When the storm abates, the winds grow chill, and snow succeeds, which whitens the hills and woods,... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...constrain 'd Between two meeting hills, it bursts away. Where rocks and woods o'erhang the turbid arread spirit Taught them ; but they his gifts acknowledged none. Yet they a beauteous off thuoden through. Nature ! great parent ! whose unceasing band Rolls round the seasons of the changeful... | |
| James Thomson - 1842 - 440 pages
...deep, It hoils, and wheels, and foams, and thunders thro'. Nature! great parent! whose unceasing hund Rolls round the seasons of the changeful year, How...thy works! With what a pleasing dread they swell the soul, That sees astonish'dl and astonish'd sings ! Ye too, ye winds ! that now hegin to hio* With hoisterous... | |
| 1842 - 440 pages
...mountains, and inaccessible hills; but as it is reinforced by its numerous and inexhaustible allies, "there gathering triple force, rapid and deep it boils, and wheels, and foams, and thunders through." And it runs on, widening and deepening as it goes, until it rushes into the almost immeasurable ocean.... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...constraint Between two meeting hills, it bursts away, Where rocks and woods o'erhang the turbid stream Ώ soul ! That sees astonish 'd ! and astonish' d sings ! Ye too, ye winds ! that now begin to blow, With... | |
| John Forbes (teacher in Edinburgh.) - 1843 - 386 pages
...douhle his usual price — "Becanse," said he, "I must hoth teach him to speak and to hold his tongue." Nature ! great Parent, whose unceasing hand Rolls...thy works, With what a pleasing dread they swell the soul ! A Naduir ! a Pharaint mhoir, aig am heil do lamh gun tamh, a' stiuradh mu 'n cuairt aimsirean... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...constrain'd Between two meeting hills, it bursts away, Where rocks and woods o'erhang the turbid stream eruption ; thither or elsewhere ; For this infernal...under darkness cover. But these thoughts Full couns (he changeful year, How mighty, how majestic, are thy works ! With what a pleasing dread they swell... | |
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