Whose air consolidates and cuts and stings, And shakes hoar tinsel from its flickering wings. Earth heaves and cracks beneath the alighting god; He gains the pass, bestrides the roaring flood, Shoots from his nostrils one wide withering sheet Of treasured... The Columbiad: A Poem - Page 12by Joel Barlow - 1809Full view - About this book
| 1810 - 578 pages
...Glares thro die compound, all its blast inhales, And seas turn crystal where he breadies his gales. Earth heaves and cracks beneath the alighting god...fix in air, Stand like a ridge of rocks, and shiver diere. The barks, confounded in their headlong spurge, Or wedged in crystal, cease their oars to urge... | |
| Joel Barlow - Fiction - 1809 - 476 pages
...breathes his gales. He comes careering o'er his bleak domain, But comes untended by his usual train; Hail, sleet and snow-rack far behind him fly, Too...Some with prone prow, as plunging down the deep, And soiIK- remounting o'er the slippery steep Seem laboring still, but moveless, lifeless all; And the... | |
| Joel Barlow - Drama - 1809 - 464 pages
...breathes his gales, He comes careering o'er his bleak domain. But comes untended by his usual train; Hail, sleet and snow-rack far behind him fly, Too...struggling fleet; The waves conglaciate instant, fix in air,Stand like a ridge of rocks, and shiver there. 170 The barks, confounded in their headlong surge,... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 446 pages
...Earth heaves and cracks beneath the alighting god ; " He gains the pass, bestrides the roaring flaod, " Shoots from his nostrils one wide withering sheet..." Stand like a ridge of rocks, and shiver there." The boats remain fixed, and the army never think of passing over upon this body of ice, formed so opportunely.... | |
| 1809 - 878 pages
...god ; " He gains the pass, bestrides the roaring flaod, " Shoots from his nostrils one wide witherimy sheet " Of treasured meteors on the struggling fleet..." Stand like a ridge of rocks, and shiver there." The boats remain fixed, and the army never think of passing over upon this body of ice, formed so opportunely.... | |
| Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 456 pages
...Glares thro the compound, all its blast inhales, And seas turn crystal where he breathes his gales. Earth heaves and cracks beneath the alighting god;...air, Stand like a ridge of rocks, and shiver there. The barks, confounded in their headlong surge, Or wedged in crystal, cease their oars to urge; Some... | |
| English literature - 1810 - 554 pages
...Glares thro the compound, all its blast inhales, And seas turn crystal where he breathes his gnles. ' Earth heaves and cracks beneath the alighting god...sheet Of treasured meteors on the struggling fleet i The waves conglaciate instant, fix m air, Stand like a ridge of rocks, and shiver there. The barks,... | |
| 1813 - 600 pages
...heave» and cracks beneath the alighdng god; lie gains the pass, bestrides the roaring flood, Shools from his nostrils one wide withering sheet Of treasured...air, Stand like a ridge of rocks and shiver there. The barks confounded on their head-long surge Or wedged in crystal cease their oars to urge; Some with... | |
| Congregational churches - 1813 - 590 pages
...tinsel from its flickering wings. Earth hc-Hte« and cracks beneath the aHe gains the pass, bestride:) the roaring flood, Shoots from his nostrils one wide...treasured meteors on the struggling fleet; The waves con°;laciate instant, fix in air, Stand like a ridge of rocks and shi*er there. The barks confounded... | |
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