 ... mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends), Precipitate the...  Elements of Criticism - Page 405by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762Full view - About this book
 | William Russell - Europe - 1839 - 620 pages
...rolling ruin bounds, At every shock the crackling wood resounds ; Still gathering strength, it smokes ; and, urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain ; There stops — so Hector," &c. Hind, xiii. Pope, in a word, if we may judge by the unsuccessful attempts... | |
 | Homer - 1840 - 292 pages
...rolling ruin bounds ; At every shock the crackling wood resounds ; Still gathering force, it smokes ; and, urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain : There stops — So Hector. Their whole force he prov'd, Resistless when he rag'd, and when he stopt, unmov'd.... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1847 - 516 pages
...373 Again, speaking of a rock torn from the brow of a mountain : Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain. Iliad, XIII. 197. Sixthly ; a period consisting mostly of long syllables, that is, of syllables pronounced... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - Literature - 1847 - 238 pages
...alexandrine. 8. A huge rock coming down from the brow of a mountain. " Still gath'ring force, it smokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain." This is a scene similar to the foregoing, and described by a similar figure. 9. Scylla and Charybdis.... | |
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