 | Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1805 - 224 pages
...! . — Onward resistless rolls the infuriate surge, Clouds follow clouds, and mountains mountains urge; Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts...Wheeling in air the winged islands fall, And one great earthy ocean covers all ! — Then ceased the storm, — night bow'd his ethiop brow To earth, and... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 280 pages
...showr's : Onward resistless rolls th' impetuous surge, Clouds follow clouds and mountains mountains urge : Wave over wave, the driving desert swims, Bursts...Wheeling in air the winged islands fall, And one great earthy ocean covers all ! " In vain did I endeavour to re-animate my unfortunate companion. My efforts... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1813 - 350 pages
...minis of sand, which may be called the waves, or rather th* moving mountains, of the Desert. » • Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts o'er their heads, inhumes their struggling limbs. ***** ,And one great earthy ocean covers all. Then ceased the storm, — Night bowed his AiHhioj.i... | |
 | Classical philology - 1813 - 534 pages
...sand, which may be called the waves, or rather, the moving mountains, of the desert, Wave over reave the driving desert swims, Bursts o'er their heads, inhumes their struggling limbs. * » * * » "' * And one great earthy ocean covers all. Then ceased t he storm, — Nighl baited his... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1814 - 494 pages
...slmwrr.s!— Onward resistless rolls the infuriate surge, Clouds follow clouds, and mountains mountains urge ; Wave over wave the driving desert swims. Bursts...Wheeling in air the winged islands fall, And one great earthy ocean covers all !— Then ceas'd the storm,— NIGHT bow'd his Ethipp brow To earth, and listen'd... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 628 pages
...showers! — Onward resistless rolls the infuriate surge, Clouds follow clouds, and mountains mountains urge, Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts...hosts, and nations nations crush, — Wheeling in air thr winged Islands fall, And one great earthy Ocean covers all ! — F.OITOR. CHAP. XLI. THE PKESTER,... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 588 pages
...mountains urge, Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts o'er their headi, inhumes their straggling limbs; Man mounts on man, on camels camels rush, Hosts...Wheeling in air the winged islands fall, And one great earthy Ocean covers all ! — EDITOR. CHAP. XLI. THE PRESTER, OR WATER-SPOUT. SECTION I. General Remarks.... | |
 | Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) - 1818 - 376 pages
...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 earthy ocean covers all. Then ceased the storm, — Night bowed his JEthiop... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...showers '. Onward resistless rolls the infuriate surge, Clouds follow clouds, and mountains mountains urge ; Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts...Wheeling in air the winged islands fall, And one great earthy ocean covers all ! — Then ceased the storm, — Night bow'd his Ethiop brow To earth, and... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 592 pages
...showers ! — Onward resistless rolls the infuriate surge, Clouds follow clouds, and mountains mountains urge, Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts...mounts on man, on camels camels rush, Hosts march u-er hosts, and nations nations crush, — Wheeling in air the winged islands fall, And one great earthy... | |
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Gnomes ! o'er the waste you led your myriad powers, Climb'd on the whirls, and aim'd the flinty showers ! Onward resistless rolls the infuriate surge, Clouds follow clouds, and mountains mountains urge ; Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts... 
