 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...nearer comes, And rolls its awful burden on the wind, The lightnings flask a larger curve, and more The noise astounds ; till, over head, a sheet Of livid...wider ; shuts and opens still, Expansive, wrapping, aether in a blaze : Follows the loosen'd, aggravated roar, Enlarging, deep'ning, mingling ; peal on... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds ; till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts...wider ; shuts and opens, still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze : Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling ; peal on peal... | |
 | James Thomson - 1850 - 800 pages
...flash a larger eurve, and more The noise astounds : till over head a sheet Of livid flame diseloses wide ; then shuts, And opens wider ; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. 1140 Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling ; peal... | |
 | William Draper Swan - Readers - 1851 - 442 pages
...burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds ; till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts...wider ; shuts and opens, still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze : Follows the loosened aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling ; peal on peal... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Literature - 1851 - 854 pages
...burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds — till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide, then shuts...opens wider, shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar. Enlarging, deepening, mingling, peal on peal... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 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 loosen'd aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling ; peal on peal... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds ; till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide ; then shuts,...wider, shuts and opens still, Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. A SUMMER EVENING. 75 Follows the loosen' d aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Literature - 1852 - 880 pages
...burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds— till overhead a sheet Of livid flame discloses wide, then shuts...opens wider, shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling, peal on peal... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...burden on the wind, The lightnings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds : till over-head h } * ether in a blaze. Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar, Enlarging, deepening, mingling; peal on peal... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...nearer comes, And rolls its awful burden on the wind, The light'nings flash a larger curve, and more The noise astounds ; 'till over head a sheet Of livid...opens wider; shuts and opens still Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze. Follows the loosen'd aggravated roar, Enlarging, deep'ning, mingling ; peal on peal... | |
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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,... 
