 | Alexandre Dumas - Egypt - 1839 - 342 pages
...storm. Night bowed her Ethiop brow To earth, and listened to the groans below; Grim Horror shook; — awhile the living hill Heaved with convulsive throes, and all was still. tivc nights I ever spent. Luckily we were to reach Sinai next day, and this hope was a balm for every... | |
 | Jews - Bible - 1840 - 212 pages
...in air the winged islands fall. And one great earthly ocean covers all ! Then ceased the storm — awhile the living hill Heaved with convulsive throes — and all was still ! Bruce and Lyon have described the horrors of sand storms, and of the moving pillars of sand in that... | |
 | Iran - 1842 - 144 pages
...storm. Night bow'd her Ethiop brow To earth, and listened to the graves below ; Grim Horror shook : awhile the living hill Heaved with convulsive throes, and all was still." DARWIN. The remainder of the reign of Cambyses was a tissue of the most extravagant cruelties and excesses... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...Showering down a silver light, From heaven, upon her chosen Favourite ! Page 16S. 'lietng hill' - ' awhile the living hill Heaved with convulsive throes, and all was still.' DR. DAÄW11 Page 173. * The Wishivg-gate.' 'In the Vale of Grasmere, by the side of the old highway... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...Showering down a silver light, From heaven, upon her chosen Favourite Î Page 168. >*** ' living hill ' ' awhile the living hill Heaved with convulsive throes, and all was still.' DE. DAKWIM. ^ Page 178. ' The Wuhing-gate,1 'In the Vale of Grasmere, by the side of the old highway... | |
 | Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) - 1851 - 474 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. *...was still. Botanic Garden, Part I. Canto II. v. 489. * Considerable confirmation was given to this discovery by the visit of Mr. Horneman, to the same spot,... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - Seven Wonders of the World - 1854 - 332 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 ! <§mt CimrU of iana at The mighty hunter, lifting np his eyes Toward the crescent moon, with grateful... | |
 | Seven wonders - Architecture, Ancient - 1854 - 384 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 !" THE GREAT TEMPLE OF DIANA AT EPHESUS. " THE mighty hunter, lifting up his eyes Towards the crescent... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1857 - 426 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 ! THREE IMPRESSIONS OF ANTIQUE GEMS. THE EAGLE. So, when with bristling plumes the bird of Jovo Vindictive... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1870 - 520 pages
...— Night bow'd her Ethiop brow To earth, and listened to the groves below ; Grim horror shook : — awhile the living hill Heaved with convulsive throes, and all was still. Camby'ses intended to have carried Ms arms into western Africa; but his designs were frustrated by... | |
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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... 
