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" Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair , and placid ; where collected all , In one impetuous torrent , down the steep It thundering shoots , and shakes the country round,. "
Rudiments of English composition. [With] Key - Page 67
by Alexander Reid - 1843
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The Edinburgh Entertainer: Containing Historical and Poetical Collections ...

1750 - 372 pages
...with wholcfome viands fill'd : There, liftenlng every noife, his watchful dog. Smooth to the (helving brink a copious flood Rolls fair, and placid ; where...collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the fteep It thundering moots, and lhakes the country round. At. firft, an azure meet, it ruihes broad...
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An Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August, 1773

William Hutchinson - 1774 - 206 pages
...conceive Thompfon had this cataract in his eye, when he wrote his feafons: " Smooth to the (helving brink, a copious flood « Rolls fair and placid ;...collected all . " In one impetuous torrent down the deep *' It thundering Ihoots, and (hakes the country round. " At firft, an azure fheet it rufhes, broad...
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The Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and ..., Volume 1

James Thomson - 1774 - 272 pages
...rwift-fhrinking T check my fteps, and view tile broken fcene. SMOOTH to the fhelving brink.a copious flood 590 Rolls fair, and placid; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the fteep It thund'ring fhoots, and fhakes the country round. At firft, an azure fheet,. it rulhes broad...
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An Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland;: With a ..., Volume 86

William Hutchinson - 1776 - 400 pages
...down the fteep It thundering fhoots, and fhakes the country round. At firft, an azure fheet it rufhes, broad; Then whitening by degrees as prone it falls, And from the loud refounding rocks below, Dafhed in a cloud of foam, it fends aloft A hoary mift, and forms a ceafelefs...
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The Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and ..., Volume 1

James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1788 - 326 pages
...of thought: fwift-ftu.inking I check my fteps, and view the broken fcene. P Smooth to the fhelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair, and placid; where...collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the fteep It thundering lhoots, and fhakes the country round. At firft, an azure fheet, it rufhes broad...
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The Seasons: By James Thomson; with His Life, an Index, and Glossary ...

James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...back, I check my steps, and view the broken scene. SMOOTH to the shelving brink a Copious flood 590 Rolls fair, and placid ; where collected all, In one...broad ; Then whitening by degrees, as prone it falls, 595 And from the loud- resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam, it sends aloft A hoary mist,...
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The Seasons

James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1793 - 308 pages
...thought : fwift-fhrinking back, I check my fteps, and view the broken fcene. Smooth to the fhelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair, and placid ; where...collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the fteep It thundering (hoots, and fhakes the country round. At firft, an azure meet, it rufhes broad...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 9

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 972 pages
...of thought : fwift-Dirii I check my ftcps, and view the broken fcene. Smooth to the (helving btink a copious flood Rolls fair, and placid ; where collected all, In one Impetuous torrent, down the fteep It thundering (hoots, and (bakes the country roufl At firft, an azure (heet, it rufhcs broad...
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The Seasons: By James Thomson

James Thomson - 1800 - 302 pages
...from the charm of thought' swift-shrinking back , j I check my steps , and view the broken scene. ' Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls...whitening by degrees , as prone it falls, And from the loud - resounding rocks below Dash'd in a cloud of foam , it sends aloft A hoary mist , and forms a...
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The Cambrian directory, or, Cursory sketches of the Welsh territories, with ...

Cambrian directory - 1800 - 238 pages
...the leifure of recolledtion, thefe nervous lines of Thomfon feem to defcribe much of the fcene ; " Smooth to the Shelving brink a copious flood " Rolls fair and placid, where colledled all " In one impetuous torrent, down the fteep " It thundering fhoots, and fhakes the country...
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