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" And oft the craggy cliff he loved to climb, When all in mist the world below was lost. What dreadful pleasure ! there to stand sublime, Like shipwreck'd mariner on desert coast, And view th... "
The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 230
1820
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The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance; Interspersed with Some Pieces ..., Volume 4

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...
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The Minstrel; Or, The Progress of Genius: in Two Books. With Some Other Poems

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,...
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The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance; Interspersed with Some Pieces ..., Volume 4

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...
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Poems of Established Reputation: To Wit: 1st. The Art of Preserving Health

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,...
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The Minstrel: Or, The Progress of Genius. In Two Books. With Some Other Poems

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,...
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The Minstrel; Or, The Progress of Genius: With Some Other Poems

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,...
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The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance; Interspersed with Some Pieces ..., Volume 4

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...
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Letters to a Young Lady on a Course of English Poetry

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...
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The Minstrel: Or, The Progress of Genius: with Other Poems, Many of Which ...

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,...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Whitehead, 1785, to Anstey, 1805

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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