 womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world, than only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale :—Look back ! l,o ; where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming...  The Northern star, or, Yorkshire magazine - Page 465edited by - 1818Full view - About this book
 | George Stillman Hillard - Italy - 1854 - 480 pages
...most of itself, but when the poet talks about ' the fountain of an infant sea,' and about its coming like an eternity as if to sweep down all things in its track,' he drew more upon his imagination than his memory. hailed by his friends as an absolute reform ; and... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1856 - 314 pages
...To the broad column which rolls on, and shows More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world, than...which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale:—Look back! Lo! where it comes like an eternity. As if to sweep down all things in its track,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 376 pages
...To the broad column which rolls on, and shows More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world, than...thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, [back! With many windings, through the vale:—Look Lo! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin David Sanborn - United States - 1856 - 566 pages
...struck with a sense of the insignificance of man and all his works, compared with what is before us. " Lo ! where it comes, like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track ! " I shall not, my dear Mrs. Blake, attempt any full description of this scene; and still less to... | |
 | Italy - 1857 - 376 pages
...cliffs, which, downward "worn again and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent throes Of a new world, than only thus to be Parent...down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract, Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, Krom side to side, beneath... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Italy - 1857 - 416 pages
...To the broad column which rolls on, and shows More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world, than...to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With manywindings, through the vale :—Look back! Lo! where It comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1857 - 568 pages
...struck with a sense of the insignificance of man and all his works, compared with what is before us. " Lo ! where it comes, like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track ! " I shall not, my dear Mrs. Blake, attempt any full description of this scene; and still less to... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin David Sanborn - United States - 1857 - 550 pages
...struck with a sense of the insignificance of man and all his works, compared with what is before us. " Lo ! where it comes, like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track ! " I shall not, my dear Mrs. Blake, attempt any full description of this scene ; and still less to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 362 pages
...on, and shows More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the threes Of a new world, than only thus to be Parent of rivers,...through the vale :—Look back ! Lo ! where it comes bike an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread,—a matchless... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - England - 1866 - 856 pages
...well as " done." B. L T. THE GROTTO OF VAUCLUSE. BY THE AUTHOR OF " FLEMISH INTERIORS." CHAPTER I. Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep...Charming the eye with dread—a matchless cataract. BYBON, Childe Harold. Te flagrantie atrox hora Canícula! Nescit taagere. HORACE. Hither repair Many... | |
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