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" And wide in air its misty volumes hurl'd Contagious atoms o'er the alarmed world: Nymphs, your bold myriads broke the infernal spell, And crush'd the sorceress in her flinty cell." In these two last lines the Doctor alludes, as he tells us in a note,... "
Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809 - Page 148
by Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1813 - 371 pages
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The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts. Part I. Containing The Economy of ...

Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1798 - 472 pages
...volcanos, fee an account of the Harmattan, in the notes on Chunda, vol. II. And, wide in air, in mifty volumes hurl'd Contagious atoms o'er the alarmed world ; Nymphs ! your bold myriads broke the infernal fpell, 155 And crufh'd the Sorcerefs in her flinty cell. 2. " Where with foft fires in unextinguifli'J...
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Select Reviews of Literature, Volume 7

1812 - 560 pages
...ground; Pour'd from red nostrils, with her scalding breath, A boiling deluge o'er the blasted heath j And wide in air its misty volumes hurl'd Contagious...happened subsequently to the time of Sir Joseph Banks' be ing there, and which extended as far as the Geysers, and overflowed them with its lava. Whence he...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 7

Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1812 - 562 pages
...struggling, shook the ground ; Pour'd from red nostrils, with her scalding breath, A boiling deluge o'er the blasted heath ; And wide in air its misty volumes...Nymphs, your bold myriads broke the infernal spell, And crush' d the sorceress in her flinty cell." In these two last lines the Doctor alludes, as he tells...
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The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts; Containing The Economy of ...

Erasmus Darwin - Botany - 1824 - 246 pages
...nostrils, with her scalding breath, A boiling deluge o'er the blasted heath ; And, wide in air, in misty volumes hurl'd Contagious atoms o'er the alarmed...infernal spell, And crush'd the sorceress in her flinty cel1. 2. " Where with soft fires in unextinguish'd urns, Cauldron'd in rock, innocuous lavti burns...
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Penn Monthly, Volume 8

Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1877 - 992 pages
...scalding breath, A boiling deluge o'er the blasted heath ; And wide in air its misty volumes hurled Contagious atoms o'er the alarmed world ; Nymphs your bold myriads broke the infernal spell, And crushed the sorceress in her flinty cell." The height to which the " Great Geyser" throws the water...
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