 | Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1805 - 224 pages
...— night bow'd his ethiop brow To earth, and listen'd to the groans below,— Grim horror shook, — awhile the living hill Heaved with convulsive throes, — and all was still ! DEATH OF ADONIS. So when on Lebanon's sequester'd height The fair ADONIS left the realms of light,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1813 - 350 pages
...,And one great earthy ocean covers all. Then ceased the storm, — Night bowed his AiHhioj.i browTo earth, and listened to the groans below * * awhile...and all was still. Botanic Garden, Part I. Canto II. u. 489. t Considerable confirmation is given to this discovery by the visit of Mr. Hornemanto the same... | |
 | Classical philology - 1813 - 518 pages
...ceased the storm, — Night boxed his JRthiop broit To earth, and listened to the groans beliw * * * . awhile the living hill Heaved with convulsive throes — and all was still. , Botanic Garden, Pt. I. Canto ir. v. 48£." REPUBLICATION OF CJSTELL'S jETJIIOPIC LEXICON. To THE EDITOR OF THE CLASSICAL... | |
 | Classical philology - 1813 - 534 pages
...storm, — Nighl baited his ЖШор broa To earth, and listened to the groans t/elotv * * * awhde, the living hill Heaved with convulsive throes — and all was still. . Botanic Garden, Pt. I. Canto uv 489." MEPUJSLICJTION OF С A STELL' S ЖТНЮР1С LEXICON. To THE EDITOR OF THE CLASSICAL... | |
 | Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) - 1818 - 376 pages
...* # * # * And one great earthy ocean covers all. Then ceased the storm, — Night bowed his JEthiop brow To earth, and listened to the groans below *...Heaved with convulsive throes — and all was still. Batanic Garden, Part I. Canto II. v. 489. -(• Considerable confirmation is given to this discovery... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...Night bow'd his Ethiop brow To earth, and listen'd to the groans below, — Grim Horror shook, — awhile the living hill Heaved with convulsive throes, — and all was still ! PERSUASION TO MOTHERS TO SUCKLE THEIR OWN CHILDREN. FROM CANTO III. CONNUBIAL FAIR! whom no fond... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1824 - 246 pages
...Night bow'd his Ethiop brow To earth, and listen'd to the groans below, — Grim horror shook, — awhile the living hill Heaved with convulsive throes, — and all was still| IX " Gnomes ! whose fine forms, impassive as the air, Shrink with soft sympathy for human care ; 500... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - History - 1831 - 432 pages
...— night bowed his Elhiop brow To ear|h, and listened to the groans below. — Grim horror shook — awhile the living hill Heaved with convulsive throes — and all was still ! *" The king returned to Memphis, his army much weakened, and his warlike ardour probably no less... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1832 - 402 pages
...instruments admirably answering the purpose for which they were designed. Page 363. Line 1. " living kill. ' awhile the living hill " Heaved with convulsive throes, and all was still." DR. DABWIN. END OF THE SECOND , VOLUME. VOL. II. C 0 LONDON : Printed liy A. & R. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Classical geography - 1835 - 272 pages
...by Marmarica and the Deserts of Libya, on the North by the Mediterranean, on the East by the Siuus Arabicus, or Red Sea, and a line drawn in a North-east...and all was still. Botanic Garden, Part I. Canto II. t>, 489. t Considerable confirmation is given to this discovery by the visit of Mr. Ilorneiuaii, to... | |
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Cambyses overwhelmed by those mighty columns of sand, which may be called the waves, or rather the moving mountains of the desert. Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts o'er their heads, inhumes their struggling limbs. * * * * And one great... 
