 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 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...peal Crush'd horrible, convulsing heaven and earth. ACCENT. I ILB. — Emphasis requires a transposition of accent when two words which have a sameness... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 pages
...frustrate the designs uid undertakings of Christ. Barrow's Sermons, Till over head, a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts, And opens wider ; shuts...opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follow? the loosen'd aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling. Thomson's Summer. Outrageous... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Conduct of life - 1845 - 196 pages
...snorting, skims the wave." STORM it SUMMER. "The tempest growls " Rolls its awful burden on the wind. i" Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar, "Enlarging,...on peal " Crush'd horrible, convulsing heaven and earlh. " Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, " Or prone descending rain." ON WINTER. " At last the... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1845 - 552 pages
...growls " Rolls its awful burden on the wind. • ••••• " Follows the looeen'd aeffravnted roar, " Enlarging, deepening, mingling ; peal on peal " Crush'd horrible, convulsing heaven and earth. "Down comea a deluge of sonorous hail, " Or prone descending rain." 84 ON WINTER. " At last the rons'd-up... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 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 loosen'd aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling, peal on peal Crush'd horrible,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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...Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the loosen'd-aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling ; peal on peal Crush'd horrible, convulsing... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - English language - 1848 - 120 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 horrible, convulsing... | |
 | James Thomson - 1849 - 524 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 loosen'd aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling ; peal on peal Crush'd horrible,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1849 - 772 pages
...flash a larger eurve, and more The noise astounds: till over head a sheet Of livid flame diseloses wide ; then shuts, And opens wider ; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. 1140 Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling; peal on peal Crush'd horrible,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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. 10. Had it pleased Heaven To try me with affliction : had he rain'd All kinds of sores and shames on... | |
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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:... 
