 | George Walter Baynham - Elocution - 1881 - 152 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. An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; a station like the herald Mercury new lighted on a heaven-kissing... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...lightnings flash ft larger curve, and more The noise astounds; till overhead ft 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 Crashed horrible, convulsing... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...lightnings (lash 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... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Bible - 1882 - 508 pages
...curee, und more The noise astounds : till oeechead u sheet Of livid name discloses wide; then shuU And opens wider ; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze." The thunder seems to divide one flash from another, interposing ita deepening roar between the flash... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - 1883 - 416 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...roar/ enlarging/ deepening/ mingling ; peal on peal crash'd horrible/ convulsing heaven and earth. — ShaJcspere. (111.) ADJURATION. I conjure you by... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch - Elocution - 1883 - 482 pages
...lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds; till over head a sheet Of vivid flame discloses wide, then shuts And opens wider; shuts...Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze, Follows the loosened aggravated roar, Enlarging, deep'ning, ming'ling peal on peal, Crashed horrible, convulsing... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1918 - 472 pages
...lightenings 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... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1891 - 458 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...opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. 1140 Follows the loosened aggravated roar," Enlarging, deepening, mingling, peal on peal Crushed horrible,... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - English language - 1893 - 392 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... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - English language - 1893 - 394 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 and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in ablaze: Follows the loosened, aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling; peal on peal Crushed... | |
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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:... 
