 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1809 - 406 pages
...Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, And continents of sand, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill, That murmurs at his feet! Pleasures of Imagination, book 1. " The meditations," says a very ingenious writer, (speaking of the... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...mountains, plains, thro' empires black with. shade, " And continents of sand, will turn his gaze " To mark the windings of a scanty rill " That murmurs at his feet ?" Akenaide. Even ideal contemplations will sometimes affect us in a similar manner. Such are the ideas... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...mountains, plains, through empires black with shade 180 And continents of sand ; will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs...; pursues the flying storm ; Rides on the vollied lightning through the heavens; Or, yok'd with whirlwinds and the northern blast, Sweeps the long tract... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...mountains, plains, through empires black with shade 180 And continents of sand ; will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs...And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft Through Gelds of air ; pursues the flying storm ; Rides on the vollied lightning through the heavens; Or, yok'd... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...mountains, plains, through empires black with shade 180 And continents of sand ; will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs...his feet ? The high-born soul Disdains to rest her heaven-aspirin); wing Beneath its native quarry. Tir'd of Earth And this diurnal scene, she springs... | |
 | Mark Akenside - Imagination - 1818 - 210 pages
...plains, through empires black with shade, = •• 180 And continents of sand ; will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs...heaven-aspiring wing, Beneath its native quarry. Tir'd of earth 185 And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft Through fields of air ; pursues the flying storm ; Rides... | |
 | Mark Akenside - 1818 - 216 pages
...mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, ISO And continents of sand ; will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs...heaven-aspiring wing, Beneath its native quarry. Tir'd of earth 185 And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft Through fields of air ; pursues the flying storm ; Rides... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade And continents of sand ; will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs...; pursues the flying storm ; Rides on the vollied lightning through the heavens; Or, yok'd with whirlwinds and the northern blast, Sweeps the long tract... | |
 | 610 pages
...Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade, And continents of saud, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill, That murmurs at his feet?" If the course of inanimate nature be interrupted by a superior power, as that of man, or things be... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 358 pages
...Through mountains, plains, through empires black with shade And continents of sand; will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet ? The high-born soul X)isdains to rest her heaven-aspiring wing Beneath its native quarry. Tir'd of Earth And this diurnal... | |
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Tired of earth And this diurnal scene, she springs aloft Through fields of air, pursues the flying storm, Rides on the vollied lightning through the heavens ; Or, yoked with whirlwinds, and the northern blast, Sweeps the long tract of day. 
