 on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hnes with all...  The Northern star, or, Yorkshire magazine - Page 465edited by - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Levi Beardsley - New York (State) - 1852 - 606 pages
...in its track, Charming the eye with dread,—a matchless cataract, ( 72 ) " Horribly beautiful! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris site, amidst the infernal surge, Like hope upon a death-bed ; and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - Italy - 1853 - 362 pages
...things in its track, Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract, Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering...the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness... | |
 | Alfred Bunn - Actors - 1853 - 338 pages
...torrent, the American Fall! The smaller one, the Central! The double Iris, spanning the abyss— " On the verge From side to side, beneath the glittering...the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn;" with Goat Island, Bath Island, and Luna Island intersecting foaming... | |
 | Walter Campbell (writer on India.) - 1853 - 416 pages
...things in its track, Charming the eye with dread,—a matchless cataract, " Horribly beautiful! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering...infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death-bed, and, unworn 240 THE OLD FOREST BANGER. Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears... | |
 | Alfred Bunn - United States - 1853 - 348 pages
...torrent, the American Fall! The smaller one, the Central! The double Iris, spanning the abyss— " On the verge From side to side, beneath the glittering...sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death bed, and unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene... | |
 | Alfred Bunn - Social Science - 1853 - 348 pages
...torrent, the American Fall! The smaller one, the Central! The double Iris, spanning the abyss— " On the verge From side to side, beneath the glittering...sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death hed, and unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene... | |
 | Walter Campbell - Hunting - 1853 - 570 pages
...best of his way to the Island of Seemasavoodrum, and judge for himself. 240 THE OLD FOREST EANGER. Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Eesembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness... | |
 | George Simpson - 1853 - 292 pages
...strategy, everything 'horribly beautiful'— r ' Like hope upon a deathbed, and unworn, The Iris sits, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues, with all their beams unshorn ; Eesembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching madness... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1853 - 814 pages
...Cataract of Velino. Of the rainbow produced by the effect of the sunshine on the spray, Byron says— ' Resembling 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.' Moore writes : ' The rainbow over the fall, like the Providence of God watching over a stormy world,... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - English language - 1875 - 408 pages
...Conjunctional sentence, and occasionally even places the Participle before its Noun :— " An Iris sits . . . . and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the disti acted waters, bears severe Its brilliant hues."—Childe Harold. 529 The Epithet is substituted... | |
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