What mortal eye can fix'd behold? Who stalks his round, an hideous form, Howling amidst the midnight storm ; Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep... The Metropolitan - Pągina 1091838Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Nathan Drake - 1800 - 482 pągines
...nature and full of originality. o Danger, whose limbs of giant mold What mortal eye can fix'd behold P Who stalks his round, an hideous form ! Howling amidst the midnight storm, Or throws him on th.i ridgy sleep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep. \ The exquisite scotch ballad of Hardyknute,... | |
| 700 pągines
...lover of poetry can pronounce without reverence, in giving his personification of Danger, has thrown him " On the ridgy steep Of some loose, hanging rock, to sleep." We believe there are few readers who do not feel that the simple sublimity of this single image, would... | |
| 1813 - 706 pągines
...lover of poetry can pronounce without reverence, in giving his personification of Danger, has thrown him " On the ridgy steep Of some loose, hanging rock, to sleep." We believe there are few readers who do not feel that the simple sublimity of this single image, would... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pągines
...Fear. " Danger, whose limbs of giant mould What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? Who stalks his round, a hideous form. Howling amidst the midnight storm, Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose-hanging rock to sleep." " I see Danger, upon whose gigantic form no one can have the courage... | |
| William Collins - 1802 - 206 pągines
...lo ! what monsters in thy train appear ! Danger, whose limbs of giant mold What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? Who stalks his round, an hideous form, Howling amidst the midnight storm ; D Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep : And with him thousand phantoms... | |
| William Collins - 1802 - 198 pągines
...lo ! what monsters in thy train appear ! Danger, whose limbs of giant mold What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? Who stalks his round, an hideous form. Howling amidst the midnight storm ; T> Or throws him on the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep : And with him thousand phantoms... | |
| Charles Fothergill (of Salisbury.) - 1803 - 342 pągines
...monsters in thy train appear ! "•Danger, whose limbs of giant mould, " What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? " Who stalks his round, an hideous form,...ridgy steep " Of some loose hanging rock to sleep : " And with him thousand phantoms join'd, " Who prompt to deeds accurs'd the mind : " And those, the... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pągines
...Forlo, what monsters in thy train appear! Danger , whose limbs of giant mould What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? Who stalks his round , an hideous form ,...the ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep : And with him thousand phantoms join'd , Who prompt to deeds accurs'd the mind : And those , the fiends... | |
| William Collins - 1804 - 168 pągines
...the following description of danger : " Danger, whose limbs of giant mould What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? Who stalks his round, an hideous form, Howling...ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep." It is impossible to contemplate the image conveyed in the two last verses without those emotions of... | |
| William Collins - 1804 - 166 pągines
...the following description of danger : " Danger, whose limbs of giant mould What mortal eye can fix'd behold ? Who stalks his round, an hideous form, Howling...ridgy steep Of some loose hanging rock to sleep." 128 entire advantage of novelty to recommend it; tot there is too much originality in all the circumstances,... | |
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