 | William Falconer - 1802 - 192 sider
...the skies. The swift volution and the enormous train Let sages vers'd in Nature's lore explain ! 50 The horrid apparition still draws nigh, And white with foam the whirling surges fly ! The guns were prim'd — the vessel northward veers Till her black battery on the column... | |
 | William Falconer - 1803 - 216 sider
...volution and the enormous train Let sages vers'd in Nature's lore explain ! 50 A Shoal of Dolphins. The horrid apparition still draws nigh, And white with foam the whirling surges fly ! The guna^ere prim'd — the vessel northward veers Till her black battery on the column... | |
 | William Falconer, James Stanier Clarke - 1804 - 292 sider
...the raging whirlwind sweeps the stream. The swift volution, and th' enormous train, Let Sages versed in Nature's lore explain—- The horrid Apparition...with foam the whirling billows fly. The guns were primed ; the Vessel northward veers, Till her black battery on the Column bears : The nitre fired ;... | |
 | William Falconer - 1868 - 180 sider
...the raging whirlwind sweeps the stream. The swift volution, and the enormous train, Let sages versed in Nature's lore explain — The horrid apparition...with foam the whirling billows fly. The guns were primed ; the vessel northward veers, Till her black battery on the column bears : The nitre fired ;... | |
 | William Falconer, Thomas Park - 1809 - 184 sider
...as seamen deem, [stream. Swells, when the raging whirlwind sweeps the The swift volution, and the' enormous train, Let sages vers'd in nature's lore...prim'd ; the vessel northward veers, Till her black battery on the column bears: The nitre fir'd ; and, while the dreadful sound Convulsive shook the slumbering... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 296 sider
...fearful deeps : Still round and round the fluid vortex flies, Scattering dun night and horror thro' the skies. The swift volution, and th' enormous train,...still draws nigh, And white with foam the whirling surges fly. The guns were prim'd ; the vessel northward veers, Till her black battery on the column... | |
 | Francis Collins - 1809 - 354 sider
...curling billows rouse the fearful deeps. " Still round and round the florid vortex flies, " Scattering dun night and horror through the skies ; " The swift...in nature's lore explain. " The horrid apparition stills draws nigh " And white with foam the whirling surges fly. " But soon, this transient undulation... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 sider
...o'erspread, In spiral motion first, as seamen deem, Swells, when tho raging whirl wind sweeps the stream. The swift volution, and th' enormous train, Let sages...prim'd ; the vessel northward veers, Till her black battery on the column bears : The nitre fir'd ; and, while the dreadful sound Convulsive shook the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 sider
...Swells, when the raging whirlwind sweeps the stream. The swift volution, and th' enormous train, Т Art sages vers'd in Nature's lore explain — The horrid...prim'd ; the vessel northward veers, Till her black battery on the column bears : The nitre tir'd ; and, while the dreadful sound Convulsive shook the... | |
 | Poetical narratives - 1810 - 330 sider
...fearful deeps : Still round and round the fluid vortex flies, Scattering dun night and horror thro' the skies. The swift volution, and th' enormous train,...still draws nigh, And white with foam the whirling surges fly. The guns were prim'd ; the vessel northward veers, Till her black battery on the column... | |
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The swift volution, and the enormous train, Let sages versed in Nature's lore explain — The horrid apparition still draws nigh, And white with foam the whirling billows fly. 
