 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds : till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts, And opens wider ; shuts...peal Crush'd horrible, convulsing heaven and earth. Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone-descending rain. Wide-rent, the clouds Pour a whole... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds : till over head a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts, And opens wider ; shuts...peal Crush'd horrible, convulsing heaven and earth. SUMMER EVENING. Confess'd from yonder slow-extinguish'd clouds, All ether softening, sober evening... | |
 | David Grant - English poetry - 1865 - 428 pages
...lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds ; till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide; then shuts, And opens wider; shuts...Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the loosened aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling : peal on peal 'rushed horrible, convulsing... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1865 - 116 pages
...and more The noise astounds : till over head a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts, ' 25 And opens wider; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze Follows the loosened aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling; peal on peal Crushed horrilile, convulsing... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds: till over head a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts, And opens wider ; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping aether in a blaze. Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling; peal on peal... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1867 - 444 pages
...lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds : till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide; then shuts And opens wider ; shuts...opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze." The thunder seems to divide one flash from another, interposing its deepening roar between the flash... | |
 | James Thomson - Poets, English - 1868 - 416 pages
...lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds : till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts, And opens wider ; shuts...opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. mo Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling ; peal on peal Crush'd horrible,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English language - 1869 - 418 pages
...lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds ; till, overhead, a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts And opens wider; shuts...Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze : Follows the loosened, aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling ; peal on peal Crushed horrible, convulsing... | |
 | A. P. A. - Acrostics - 1869 - 226 pages
...; And sings a solitary song, That whistles in the wind." 1 . " Till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts, And opens wider — shuts...opens, still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze." 2. '' A sceptre snatch'd with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintain'd as gained ; And he... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1870 - 382 pages
...lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds ; till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts, And opens wider; shuts...Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze : Follows the loosened aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling ; peal on peal Crushed horrible, convulsing... | |
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... explosion vast, The thunder raises his tremendous voice. At first heard solemn o'er the verge of heaven, The tempest growls; but as it nearer comes, And rolls its awful burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds:... 
