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" Here stood the Alps, a prodigious range of stone, the load of the earth, that covered many countries, and reached their arms from the ocean to the Black Sea ; this huge mass of stone is softened and dissolved, as a tender cloud, into rain. Here stood... "
A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections ... - Page 241
by Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794
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The Spectator: ...

1718 - 348 pages
...BltekSea; this hugeMafs of Stoneisfoftnedanddiffolved as a tender Cloud into Rain. Here flood the jifricttn Mountains, and Atlas with his Top above the Clouds; there was frozen Cnucafus, and Taurus, and Imaut, and the Mountains of Afta. ; and yonder towards the North, flood the...
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The arts of logick and rhetorick [adapted by J. Oldmixon from La manière de ...

John Oldmixon - 1728 - 484 pages
...Sea. This huge Mafs of Stone " is foften'd, and diflblv'd as a tender Cloud into Rain. " Here flood the African Mountains and Atlas with his " Top above the Clouds. There was frozen Caucasus and " Taunts and Imaust and the Mountains of Jljia, j and " yonder towards the North flood the Riphtean...
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The Spectator, Volume 2

1739 - 346 pages
...Black Sea ; this huge Mafs of Stone is foftned and diffolved as a tender Cloud into Rain. Here flood the African Mountains, and Atlas with his Top above the Clouds ; there was frozen Caucafus, and Taurus, and Imaus, and the Mountains t&Ajia ; and yonder towards the North, flood the...
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A System of Oratory, Delivered in a Course of Lectures Publicly ..., Volume 2

John Ward - 1759 - 458 pages
...Black fea. This huge majs of ft one is foftened and diffblved, as a tender cloud into rain. Here ftood the African mountains, and Atlas with his top above the • clouds. There 'was frozen Caucafus, and Taurus, and Imaus, and the mountains of AJia ; and yonder, towards the north, ftood the...
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Rhetoric; Or, A View of Its Principal Tropes and Figures, in Their Origin ...

Thomas Gibbons - 1767 - 540 pages
...Black-fea ; this huge mafs " of ftone is foftened and difsolved as a ten«* der cloud into rain. Here ftood the African «* mountains, and Atlas with his top above the " clouds ; there was frozen Caucafus, and Tau« nts, and Imaus^ and the mountains of AJla \ «* and yonder, towards the north,...
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Select lessons in prose and verse, from various authors, to which are added ...

Select lessons - 1785 - 156 pages
...Black Sea ; this huge Ma!> of Stone is loftened and difTolved as a tender Clowi into Rain. Here flood the African Mountains, and Atlas with his Top above the Clouds ; there iw; frozen Caucnfus, and taunts, and Imaus, and the Mountains of Afea ; and yonder towards the North...
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 4

1786 - 694 pages
...Black. Sea; this huge mafs of Itone is foftened and dirTolved as a tender cloud into rain. Here ftood the African mountains, and Atlas with his top above the clouds; there was frozen Caucafus, and Taurus, and Imaus, and the mountains of Afia; and yonder towards the north, ftood the...
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The Religion of the Ancient Greeks

Leclerc de Sept-Chênes - 1788 - 362 pages
...Sea ; this huge mafs of ** ftone is foftened and diffolved, as a tender " cloud into rain. Here ftood the African " mountains, and Atlas with his top above the '* clouds. There was frozen Cauca/us, and " Taurus, and Imaus, and the mountains of ** Afia : And yonder, towards the north, ftood...
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The Spectator, with Illustrative Notes: To which are Prefixed, the ..., Volume 3

1794 - 450 pages
...huge mass of stone is softened and dissolved as a tender cloud into rain. Iljj* stood the Africart mountains, and Atlas with his top above the clouds...of Asia ; and yonder, towards the north, stood the Riphean hills, clothed in ice and snow. All these are vanished, dropt away as the snow upon their heads....
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A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With ..., Volume 2

Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 480 pages
...softened and dissolved as a tender cloud into rain. Here stood the the African mountains ; and Adas, with his top above the clouds. There was frozen Caucasus,...yonder, towards the north, stood the Riphasan hills, cloathed in ice and snow. All these are vanished, and dropped away as the snow upon their heads." *...
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