 Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky: So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters...  Walden - Page 443by Henry David Thoreau - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Poetry of places - 1905 - 274 pages
...Emergent, and their broad backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky. So high as heav'd the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom, broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters : thither they Hasted with glad precipitance, uproll'd As drops on dust conglobing from the dry : Part... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1906 - 428 pages
...whatever convulsion of nature occasioned it, before the waters gushed in, what a horrid chasm must it have appeared ! "So high as heaved the tumid hills,...diameter of Loch Fyne, we apply these proportions to Walden, which, as we have seen, appears already in a vertical section only like a shallow plate, it... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Authors, American - 1906 - 540 pages
...whatever convulsion of nature occasioned it, before the waters gushed in, what a horrid chasm must it have appeared! " So high as heaved the tumid hills,...hollow bottom, broad, and deep, Capacious bed of waters ." a 1 [This sentence is queried in the margin.] 2 [William Gilpin, Observations on the Highlands of... | |
 | Laura Emma Lockwood - 1907 - 702 pages
...below the surface of the earth : in with the river sunk ...Satan: PL IX. 74; to descend a given depth ; so high as heaved the tumid hills, so low down sunk a hollow bottom : PL vn. 289. (2) to become submerged in water or something likened to it : Sinless] 477 [Sit L. 167,... | |
 | John Milton - 1908 - 440 pages
...huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds ; their tops ascend the sky. So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk...hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters. Thither they 290 Hasted with glad precipitance, uprolled, As drops on dust conglobing, from the dry... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - Anthologies - 1910 - 478 pages
...this one, which is so unusually deep for its area, appears in a vertical section through its center not deeper than a shallow plate. Most ponds, emptied,...diameter of Loch Fyne, we apply these proportions to Walden, which, as we have seen, appears already in a vertical section only like a shallow plate, it... | |
 | John Milton - 1910 - 392 pages
...huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds ; their tops ascend the sky. So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk...hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters. Thither they 290 Hasted with glad precipitance, uprolled, As drops on dust conglobing, from the dry... | |
 | John Milton - 1917 - 660 pages
...huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds ; their tops ascend the sky. So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk...hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters. Thither they 290 Hasted with glad precipitance, uprolled, As drops on dust conglobing, from the dry... | |
 | George Goodchild - English literature - 1922 - 264 pages
...it can be spared by the imagination. What if all ponds were shallow ? Would it not react on the mind of men? I am thankful that this pond was made deep...diameter of Loch Fyne, we apply these proportions to Walden, which, as we have seen, appears already in a vertical section only like a shallow plate, it... | |
 | Frank C. Johnson, Jack Lindsay, Kenneth Slessor - Australian literature - 1923 - 310 pages
...huge appear Emergent, and their broad, bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky; So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk...hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters: neither they Hasted with glad precipitance, uproll'd As dropB on dust conglobing from the dry. It is... | |
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