 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge painting - 1847 - 578 pages
...nearer mountains, as through a chasm, was seen the main line of the loftiest Apennines, to the cast The day was radiant and warm. Every now and then we...Vesuvius ; its distant deep peals seemed to shake tho very air and light of day, which interi>cnetrated our frames, with the sullen and tremendous sound.... | |
 | Rand - 1857 - 344 pages
...in little streaks along the wind. Between Vesuvius and the nearer mountains, as through a chasm, was seen the main line of the loftiest Apennines, to the...interpenetrated our frames with the sullen and tremendous sound ' " " O, how disagreeable ! " cried Bella ; " I should not like to be so near Vesuvius as that, if... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - English letters - 1866 - 548 pages
...little streaks along the wind. Between Vesuvins and the nearer mountains, as. through a chasm, was seen the main line of the loftiest Apennines, to the...now and then we heard the subterranean thunder of Vesuvins ; its distant deep peals seemed to shake the very air and light of day, which interpenetrated... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fore-edge paintings - 1874 - 584 pages
...little streaks along the wind. Between Vesuvius and the nearer mountains, as tlirough a chasm, was seen the main line of the loftiest Apennines, to the...east. The day was radiant and warm. Every now and theu we heard the subterranean thunder of Vesuvius ; its distant deep peals seemed to shake the very... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1878 - 424 pages
...in little streaks along the wind. Between Vesuvius and the nearer mountains, as through a chasm, was seen the main line of the loftiest Apennines, to the...frames, with the sullen and tremendous sound. This sound was what the Greeks beheld (Pompeii, you know, was a Greek city). They lived in harmony with... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - English letters - 1882 - 304 pages
...in little streaks along the wind. Between Vesuvius and the nearer mountains, as through a chasm, was seen the main line of the loftiest Apennines to the...was radiant and warm. Every now and then we heard subterranean thunder of Vesuvius ; its distant deep peals seemed to shake the very air and light of... | |
 | Félix Rabbe - 1888 - 330 pages
...in little streaks along the wind. Between Vesuvius and the nearer mountains, as through a chasm, was seen the main line of the loftiest Apennines, to the...sound. This scene was what the Greeks beheld (Pompeii. was, you know, a Greek city). They lived in harmony with Nature, and the interstices of their incomparable... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - English poetry - 1890 - 320 pages
...line of the loftiest Apennines to the east. The day was radiant and warm. Every now and then we heard subterranean thunder of Vesuvius ; its distant, deep...our frames with the sullen and tremendous sound." Thus he wrote when merely passive to nature's influences ; but when he begins to think he irradiates... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - English poetry - 1890 - 318 pages
...in little streaks along the wind. Between Vesuvius and the nearer mountains, as through a chasm, was seen the main line of the loftiest Apennines to the...was radiant and warm. Every now and then we heard subterranean thunder of Vesuvius ; its distant, deep peals seemed to shake the very air and light of... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - History - 1892 - 344 pages
...in little streaks along the wind. Between Vesuvius and the nearer mountains, as through a chasm, was seen the main line of the loftiest Apennines, to the...frames with the sullen and tremendous sound. This sound was what the Greeks beheld (Pompeii, you know, was a Greek city). They lived in harmony with... | |
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Behind was the single summit of Vesuvius, rolling forth volumes of thick white smoke, whose foam-like column was sometimes darted into the clear dark sky, and fell in little streaks along the wind. Between Vesuvius and the nearer mountains, as through... 
