 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...nearer comes, And rolls its awful burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds : till over head a sheet Of livid...wider ; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the loosened aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling; peal on peal... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...nearer comes, And rolls its awful burthen on the wmd; 5 The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds: till over head a sheet Of livid...wider; shuts and opens, still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. 10 Follows the loosened .aggravated roar, Enlarging, deep:ning, mingling peal on... | |
 | James Thomson - 1840 - 174 pages
...nearer comes, And rolls its awful burden on the wind, 1135 The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds ; till over head a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide j then shuts, And opens wider ; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. 1140 Follows... | |
 | 1840 - 430 pages
...lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds: till over head a sheet Of livid flame incloses wide ; then shuts And opens wider ; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the loosened aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling ; peal on peal... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...burden on the wind. The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds : till over-head rpen'd his visual ray To objects distant far, whereby...Saw within ken a glorious angel stand, The same w ether in a blaze. Follows the loosen 'd airsravated roar. Enlarging, deepening, mingling ; peal on... | |
 | James Thomson - 1842 - 440 pages
...nearer comes, And rolls its awful hurden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds ; till over head a sheet Of livid...wider : shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a hlaze. Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar, Eularging, deepening, mingling; peal on peal... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds: till over-head n to fail." To whom, soon mov'd with touch of blame,...Ere. - What words have pass'd thy lips, Adam severe ! ether in a blaze. Follows the loose n'd aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling; peal on peal... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1844 - 684 pages
...larger curve, and mon* The noi««. .istnunrts; till over head » «h*et Descriptive Poetry. [January, Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts And opens wider ; shuts, and opens still Expauttive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the loosened, aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening,... | |
| |
And following slower, in explosion vast, The Thunder raises his tremendous voice. At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven, The tempest growls ; but as it nearer comes, And rolls its awful burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve,... 
