 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 pages
...Danger: " 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 sume lonse hanging rock to sleep." It is impossible to contemplate the image conveyed in the two last... | |
 | William Collins - 1811 - 162 pages
...monsters in thy train appear ! Danger, whose limbs of giant mould What mortal eye can fix'd behold F Who stalks his round, an hideous form, Howling amidst...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 - 1815 - 118 pages
...mousters in thy train appear! Danger, whose limhs of giant mould What mortal eye can fix'd hehold ? Who stalks his round, an hideous form, Howling amidst...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,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...appear! 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 rigid steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep; And with him thousand phantoms join'd, Who prompt... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 pages
...fly. 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...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,... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1820 - 848 pages
...perform his own part of - dreadful deed. CHAPTER XIX. Danger, whose limbs of giant mould, What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? Who stalks his round an hideous form ! Howling amidst the midnight storm ! And 'with him thousand phantoms join'd. Who prompt, to deeds accurs*d the mind ! fatigue Which Frederic... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 412 pages
...appear ! Danger, whose limbs of giant mould ' What mortal eye can fixt behold ? Who stalks his round, a hideous form, Howling amidst the midnight storm, Or...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,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - 508 pages
...above a tumbling deep,' p. 29. just reminds one of Collins' bold personification of Danger ; — " Or throws him on the ridgy steep • Of some loose hanging rock to sleep." • ' How like a shade the horse and rider seem !' p. 25. Campbell's verses — " Now o'er the hills... | |
 | Fabius (pseud.) - 1821 - 112 pages
...appear. Danger, whose limbs of giant mould What mortal eye can fix'd behold f Who stalks his round, a hideous form, Howling amidst the midnight storm; Or throws him on the rigid steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep: And with him thousand phantoms join'd, That prompt... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...fly. 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...the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep : And with him thousand phantoms join'd, Who prompt to deeds accursed the mind: And those, the fiends,... | |
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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... 
