| Ann Ward Radcliffe - Castles - 1794 - 446 pages
...coaft, And view th' enormous wafle of vapour, toft In billows Icngth'ning to th' horizon round * !" From this romantic reverie he was awakened by the...voices of the guides, repeating his name, which was reverbed from cliff to cliffj till an hundred tongues feemed to call him ; when he foon quieted the... | |
| James Beattie - 1797 - 150 pages
...iiv mist the world below was lost. What dreadful pleasure ! there to stand sublime, Like shipwreck'd mariner on desert coast, And view th' enormous waste...vapour, tost In billows, lengthening to th' horizon roimrf, Now scoop'd in gulphs, with mountains now enrboss'd! And hear the voice of mirth and song rebound,... | |
| Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1799 - 440 pages
...coaft, And view th' enormous wafte of vapour, toft In billows length'ning to th' horizon round * !" From this romantic reverie he was awakened by the...repeating his name, which was reverberated from cliff to cliff,ttill an hundred tongues feemed to call him ; when ,he foon quieted the fears of the Count and... | |
| Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...in mist the world below was lost. What dreadful pleasure ! there to stand sublime, Like shipwreck'd mariner on desert coast, And view th' enormous waste...tost In billows, lengthening to th' horizon round, Now scoop'd in gulfs, with mountains now emboss'd ! And hear the voice of mirth and song rebound, flocks,... | |
| James Beattie - Wood-engraving - 1802 - 152 pages
...in mist the world below was lost. What dreadful pleasure ! there to stand sublime, Like shipwreck'd mariner on desert coast, And view th' enormous waste...tost In billows, lengthening to th' horizon round, Now scoop'd in gulfs, with mountains now emboss'd ! And hear the voice of mirth and song rebound, Flocks,... | |
| James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1805 - 190 pages
...in mist the world below was lost. What dreadful pleasure ! there to stand sublime, Like shipwreck'd mariner on desert coast, And view th' enormous waste...tost In billows, lengthening to th' horizon round, Now scoop'd in gulfs, with mountains now emboss'd ! And hear the voice of mirth and song rebound, Flecks,... | |
| Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1806 - 442 pages
...beneath, and the doubtful mountains-. " What dreadful pleasure ! there to stand sublime, Like shipwreck'd mariner on desert coast, And view th' enormous waste...vapour, tost In billows lengthening to th' horizon round * ! " From this romantic reverie he was awakened by the voices of the guides repeating his name, which... | |
| John Aikin - Books and reading - 1806 - 346 pages
...in mist the world below was lost. What dreadful pleasure ! there to stand sublime, Like shipwreck'd mariner on desert coast, And view th' enormous waste of vapour, tost In billows length'ning to th' horizon round, Now scoop'd in gulfs, with mountains now emboss'd ! And hear the... | |
| James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - Poets, Scottish - 1811 - 308 pages
...in mist the world below was lost. What dreadful pleasure ! there to stand sublime, Like shipwreck'd mariner on desert coast, And view th' enormous waste...tost In billows, lengthening to th' horizon round, Now scoop'd in gulfs, with mountains now emboss'd ! And hear the voice of mirth and song rebound, Flocks,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...in mist the world below was lost. What dreadful pleasure ! there to stand sublime, Like shipwreck'd mariner on desert coast, And view th" enormous waste of vapour, tost In billows, lengthening to the horizon round. Now scoop'd in gulfs, with mountains now emboss'd ! And hew the voice of mirth and... | |
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