 | John Henry Cliffe - 1860 - 284 pages
...mention, and is one of the " lions " of the locality. " Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Bolls fair and placid, where, collected all, In one impetuous torrent down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first an azure sheet, it rushes broad... | |
 | James Thomson - 1861 - 480 pages
...I check my steps, and viea_the broken scene. Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood 590 Bolls fair, and placid, where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad:... | |
 | James Thomson - 1862 - 272 pages
...swift shrinking back, I check my steps, and view the broken scene. Smooth to the shelving brink, a copious flood Rolls fair and placid; where, collected all In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad.... | |
 | Stephen Watson Fullom - 1863 - 488 pages
...wigwams, or the falls of Niagara, reciting the lines of Thomson : — " Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair and placid ; where collected all In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad... | |
 | Months - 1864 - 262 pages
...tall-stemmed, and pounced auriculas rise. Crabbe. THE WATERFALL J. Gilbert Smooth to the shelving brink, a copious flood Rolls fair and placid, where collected all In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. Thomson. " SWEET ROSE " Noel Humphreys Ope,... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1864 - 318 pages
...: swift shrinking back, I check my steps, and view the broken scene. Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair and placid ; where collected all In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first an azure sheet, it rushes broad... | |
 | John Rowlands - 1866 - 148 pages
...Close to Glynhir there is a beautiful fall formed by the Loughor. " Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair and placid, where, collected all, In one impetuous torrent down the steep It thuud'ring shoots and shakes the country round. Blyne, or Blaenau, the residence of an old... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...commixing played secure. J. THOMSON 956 DESCRIPTION OF A WATER-FALL SMOOTH to the shelving brink a copious flood rolls fair and placid: where, collected all, in one impetuous torrent, down the steep it thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad... | |
 | James Thomson - 1868 - 416 pages
...swift-shrinking back, I check my steps, and view the broken scene. 589 Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair and placid ; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes broad... | |
 | Gilbert Malcolm Sproat - 1871 - 144 pages
...I advise inexperienced poets to avoid descriptions of waterfalls. " Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair and placid, where collected all In one impetuous torrent down the steep It thundering shoots and shakes the country round. At first an azure sheet it rushes broad ;... | |
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Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair and placid; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. 
