| 1835 - 700 páginas
...of granite. Then let them imagine, if they can, these mountains of crystal hurled through a narrow strait by a rapid tide ; meeting, as mountains in...meet, with the noise of thunder, breaking from each others precipices huge fragments, or rending each other asunder, till, losing their former equilibrium,... | |
| 1835 - 466 páginas
...of granite. Then let them imagine, if they can, these mountains of crystal hurled through a narrow strait by a rapid tide ; meeting, as mountains in...rending each other asunder, till, losing their former equilibrinm, they fall over headlong, lifting the sea around in breakers, and whirling it in eddies... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 1138 páginas
...if they can, the«: mountains of chrystal hurled through a narrow strait by rapid tide; meeting, ae mountains in motion would meet, with the noise of thunder, breaking from each ther's precipices huge fragments, or rending each other asunder, till, losing their former equilibrium,... | |
| Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1837 - 400 páginas
...of granite. Then, let them imagine, if they can, these mountains of crystal hurled through a rapid strait by a rapid tide ; meeting (as mountains in...meet !) with the noise of thunder ; breaking, from [the fronts of] each other's precipices huge fragments, or rending each other asunder; till, losing... | |
| 1850 - 640 páginas
...were of granite. Then let them imagine, if they can, these crystal mountains, hurled through a narrow strait by a rapid tide, meeting as mountains in motion would meet, with a noise of thunder, breaking from each other's precipices huge fragments, or rending each other asunder... | |
| Sir John Leslie, Robert Jameson, Hugh Murray - 1845 - 440 páginas
...; and he bids him " imagine these mountains hurled through a narrow strait by a rapid tide, meeting with the noise of thunder, breaking from each other's...sea around in breakers, and whirling it in eddies. There is not a moment in which it can be conjectured what will happen in the next ; there is not one... | |
| 1849 - 492 páginas
...of granite. Then let them imagine, if they can, these mountains of crystal hurled through a narrow strait by a rapid tide; meeting, as mountains in motion...sea around in breakers, and whirling it in eddies ; whilst the flatter fields of ice forced against these masses, or against these rocks, by the wind... | |
| Peter Lund Simmonds - 1852 - 424 páginas
...; and he bids him " imagine these mountains hurled through a narrow strait by a rapid tide, meeting with the noise of thunder, breaking from each other's...asunder, till, losing their former equilibrium, they fell over headlong, lifting the sea around in breakers and whirling it in eddies. There is not a moment... | |
| Peter Lund Simmonds - 1853 - 274 páginas
...granite;and he bids him " imagine these mountains hurled through, a narrow strait by a rapid tide, meeting with the noise of thunder, breaking from each other's...sea around in breakers, and whirling it in eddies. There is not a moment in which it can be conjectured what will happen in the next ; there is not one... | |
| Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 1074 páginas
...; and he bids him " imagine these mountains hurled through a narrow strait by a rapid tide, meeting with the noise of thunder, breaking from each other's...asunder, till, losing their former equilibrium, they fell over headlong, lifting the sea around in breakers and whirling it >.i eddies There is not a moment... | |
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