 | Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - Fashion - 1847 - 504 pages
...numherless, The rushing of whose wings was as the sound Of a hroad river headlong in its course Plunged from a mountain summit; or the roar Of a wild ocean in the autumn storm Shattering its hillows on a chore of rocks. — SOUTHEY. MB. Pringle, in his entertaining "African Sketches," gires... | |
 | Hugh Murray - India - 1833 - 398 pages
...myriads numberless, The rushing of whose wings is as the sound Of a uroad river headlong in its course Plunger, from a mountain summit, or the roar Of a...insects of all kinds are sometimes so numerous, and BO active in their operations, that it becomes necessary to * Amoenitateg Academics, torn. vi. p. 138.... | |
 | John Kitto - 1835 - 344 pages
...the sound Of a hroad river, headlong in its course Plunged from a mountain-summit, or the roar Of the wild ocean in the autumn storm, Shattering its billows on a shore of rocks. Onward they came, the winds impelled them on, Their work was done, their path of ruin past, Their graves... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1838 - 696 pages
...numberless, The rushing of whose wings was as the sound Of some broad river, headlong in its course Plunged from a mountain summit; or the roar Of a wild ocean in the autumnal storm, Shattering its billows on a shore of rocks. Onward they came, the winds impell'd them... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1838 - 476 pages
...numberless, The rushing of whose wings was as the sound Of some broad river, headlong in its course Plunged from a mountain summit ; or the roar Of a wild ocean in the autumnal storm, Shattering its billows on a shore of rocks. Onward they came, the winds impell'd them... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 480 pages
...LOCUST CLOUD. Onward they came, a dark continuous cloud Of congregated myriads numberless, Plunged from a mountain summit ; or the roar Of a wild ocean...storm, Shattering its billows on a shore of rocks. Onward they came, the winds impell'd them on, Their work was done, their path of ruin past, Their graves... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...numberless, The rushing of whose wings was as the sound Of a broad river, headlong in its course Plunged from a mountain summit ; or the roar Of a wild ocean in the autumn Rtorm, Shattering its billows on a shore of rocks. Onward they came, the winds impell'd them on, Their... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...numberless, The rushing of whose wings was as the sound Of a broad river, headlong in its course Plunged from a mountain summit ; or the roar Of a wild ocean...storm, Shattering its billows on a shore of rocks. Onward they came, the winds impell'd them on, Their work was done, their path of ruin past, Their graves... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1846 - 642 pages
...numberless, The rushing of whose wings was as the sound Of a broad river headlong in its course Plunged from a mountain summit, or the roar Of a wild ocean in the autumu storm Shattering its billows on a shore of rocks ! '" But no account of the appearance and ravages... | |
 | Fashion - 1847 - 516 pages
...numberless, The rushing of whose wings was as the sound Of a broad river headlong in its course Plunged from a mountain summit; or the roar Of a wild ocean...storm Shattering its billows on. a shore of rocks.— SOUTHEv. ME. Pringle, in his entertaining "African Sketches," gives the following account of these... | |
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Onward they came, a dark continuous cloud Of congregated myriads numberless, The rushing of whose wings was as the sound Of a broad river, headlong in its course Plunged from a mountain summit ; or the roar Of a wild ocean in the autumn storm, Shattering... 
