 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...their foundations loos'ning to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, i^RockS, waters, woods ; and by the shaggy tops Uplifting', bore them in their hands. — ... B • This idea of the giants throwing the mountains, •which is in itself so grand, Claudian... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Aesthetics - 1810 - 452 pages
...the lightning glimpse they ran, they flew. From their foundations loos'ning to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters,...the shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands. The grandeur arising from absolute immobility, is no less finely marked in the same book : — Under... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 462 pages
...the lightning glimpse they ran, they flew. From their foundations loos'ning to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters,...the shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands. The grandeur arising from absolute immobility, is no less. finely marked in the same book : ._ Under... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...lightning glimpse they ran, they flew ; . From their foundations loosening to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters,...the shaggy tops Up-lifting bore them in their hands : amaze, , Be sure, and terrour, seiz'd the rebel host, When coming towards them so dread they saw... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 384 pages
...out of them the following great image : • From their foundations loos'ning to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills, with all their load. Rocks, waters,...the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands.' We have the full majesty of Homer in this short description, improved by the imagination of Claudian,... | |
 | sir Uvedale Price (bart.) - 1810 - 446 pages
...the lightning glimpse they ran, they flew. From their foundations loos'ning to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters,...the shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands. The grandeur arising from absolute immobility, is no finely marked in the same book : — Under his... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...the liglitning glimpse they ran, they flew; From their foundations loosening to and fro, They plnck'd the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tups I'p lifting owe them in their hands: amaze, Bo sure, and terrour, sei/.'d the rebel host, When... | |
 | 1810 - 488 pages
...Light as the lightning gliinuse ihey ran, flew; From their foundation loos'ning to and fro They plurk'd the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy top* Uplifting bore them in their hands : amaze, Be sure, and terror sciz'd the rebel host, When coming... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...the lightning glimpse they ran, they flew; From their foundations loos'ning to and fro They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops 645 Up-lifting bore them in their hands : amaze, Be sure, and terror seiz'd the rebel host, "When coming... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1813 - 290 pages
...From their foundations loos'ning to and fro, They pluek'd the seated hills with all their load, Roeks, waters, woods ; and by the shaggy tops Uplifting, bore them in their hands. This idea of the giants throwing the mountains, whieh is in itself so grand, Claudian renders burlesque... | |
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They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands. Amaze, Be sure, and terror seized the rebel host, When coming towards them so dread they saw The bottom of the mountains... 
