 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - Literary Criticism - 1858 - 776 pages
...flame discloses wide ; then shuts, And opens wider ; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping aether in a blaze. Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar,...peal Crush'd horrible, convulsing heaven and earth. Summtr, lim SUMMER EVENING. Confess'd from yonder slow-extinguish'd clouds, All ether softening, sober... | |
 | James Thomson, Robert Pollok - 1858 - 438 pages
...llash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds : till over head a sheet Of livid flame di.icloscs wide ; then shuts, And opens wider ; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. 1140 Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar, Enl.rging, deepening, mingling ; peal on peal Crush'd horrible,... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1860 - 128 pages
...lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds : till over head a sheet 35 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 40 Crushed horrible, convulsing... | |
 | James Thomson, Thomas Gray - Poetry - 1861 - 425 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 - 1862
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863
...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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith (sir) - History - 1864
...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... | |
![Scraps. [An anthology, ed.] by H. Jenkins](http://bks7.books.google.co.uk/books?id=QD4CAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "Scraps. [An anthology, ed.] by H. Jenkins") | Henry Jenkins (esq) - 1864
...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... | |
 | David Grant - Poetry - 1852 - 359 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
...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... | |
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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:... 
