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The British Critic: A New Review - Page 17
1812
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The Edinburgh Entertainer: Containing Historical and Poetical Collections ...

English literature - 1750 - 372 pages
...wholcfome viands fill'd : There, liftenlng every noife, his watchful dog. Smooth to the (helving brink a copious flood Rolls fair, and placid ; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the fteep It thundering moots, and lhakes the country round. At. firft, an azure meet, it ruihes...
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An Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August, 1773

William Hutchinson - England - 1774 - 206 pages
...Thompfon had this cataract in his eye, when he wrote his feafons: " Smooth to the (helving brink, a copious flood « Rolls fair and placid ; where collected all . " In one impetuous torrent down the deep *' It thundering Ihoots, and (hakes the country round. " At firft, an azure fheet it...
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The Works of James Thomson: With His Last Corrections and ..., Volume 1

James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1788 - 326 pages
...thought: fwift-ftu.inking I check my fteps, and view the broken fcene. P Smooth to the fhelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair, and placid; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the fteep It thundering lhoots, and fhakes the country round. At firft, an azure fheet, it rufhes...
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The Seasons

James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - English poetry - 1793 - 308 pages
...: fwift-fhrinking back, I check my fteps, and view the broken fcene. Smooth to the fhelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair, and placid ; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the fteep It thundering (hoots, and fhakes the country round. At firft, an azure meet, it rufhes...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 9

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 972 pages
...of thought : fwift-Dirii I check my ftcps, and view the broken fcene. Smooth to the (helving btink a copious flood Rolls fair, and placid ; where collected all, In one Impetuous torrent, down the fteep It thundering (hoots, and (bakes the country roufl At firft, an azure (heet, it rufhcs...
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The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 14

1801 - 446 pages
...thick entangled woods and pathless steeps, till at once it burst upon our view. Smooth to the shelving brink the copious flood Rolls fair and placid ; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thundering shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure street, it ushers...
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The Port Folio, Volume 2

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1809 - 572 pages
...Swift shrinking back, I check my steps ; and view, the broken scene. Smooth to the shelving brink, a copious flood rolls fair and placid; where, collected all in one impetuous torrent, down the steep it thundering shoots, and shakes the country round." A person hearing this read without...
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The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 19

1802 - 708 pages
...rocky glen. With exceffive toil we forced our way through thick entangled woods and pathlefs deeps, till at once it buril upon our view. Smooth to the...flood Rolls fair and placid ; where collected all. In une impetuous torrent, down the ftcep It thundering (hoots, and (hakes the country round. At firft...
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Anti-Jacobin Review, True Churchman's Magazine; and Protestant ..., Volume 11

Literature, Modern - 1802 - 552 pages
...entangled woods and pathlds Itecps, till at once it kiifii upon our view. " Smooth to the fhelving brink the copious flood Rolls fair and placid; where, collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the fteep It thundering (hoots, and (hakes the country round. At firlr, an azure flreet, it uiliers...
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The Seasons ...

James Thomson - English poetry - 1802 - 320 pages
...thought: swift shrinking back, I check my steps, and view the broken scene. Smooth to the shelving brink a copious flood Rolls fair, and placid; where collected all, In one impetuous torrent, down the steep It thund'ring shoots, and shakes the country round. At first, an azure sheet, it rushes...
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