 | Literary Criticism - 1806 - 380 pages
...over head a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide; then shuts, And opens wider ; shuts and opens stiil Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the...aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling ; peal on peril Crush'd horrible, convulsing heaven and eailh. Guilt hears appall' d, with deeply-troubled'thought,... | |
 | James Johnson - Travel - 1807 - 388 pages
...And opens wider ; shuts and opens still, Kxpansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the loosi'n'd aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling, peal...on peal, Crush'd horrible ! convulsing heaven and earth!1' After a tedious passage, we arrived in Madras roads on the 21st of April. Among the various... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Park - 1808
...lightuings 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. Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone-descending rain. Wide-rent, the clouds Pour a whole... | |
 | Cabinet - 1808
...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. Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone descending rain. Wide-rent, the clouds Pour a whole... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 400 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, deep'ning, mangling; peal on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810
...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. Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone descending rain. Wide-rent, the cloud* Pour a whole... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810
...lightnings Hash 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 IJMI V> horrible, convulsing Heaven and Earth. Down comes a deluge of sonorous bail, >r prone descending... | |
 | James Thomson - 1811
...astonnds : till over head a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shnts, And opens wider: shnts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze....roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling; peal on peal Crash'd horrible, convnlsing heaven and earth. Down comes a delnge of sonorons bail, Or prone-descending... | |
 | James Thomson - 1813 - 323 pages
...it nearer comes, And rolls its awful burden on the wind, H35 A Thunder Storm. Follows the loosened aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling; peal...peal Crush'd horrible, convulsing heaven and earth. Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone-descending rain. Wide rent, the clouds 1145. Pour a... | |
![The seasons [including an account of the life and writings of the author].](http://bks4.books.google.co.uk/books?id=G60DAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "The seasons [including an account of the life and writings of the author].") | James Thomson - 1802
...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, convulsi.ng heaven and earth. Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone-descending rain. Wide rent, the clouds Pour a whole... | |
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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:... 
