...Where, for relentless months, continual Night Holds o'er the glittering waste her starry reign. . . . Muttering, the Winds at eve, with blunted point, Blow...loose Sleet descends, And floods the country round. The Rivers swell, Of bonds impatient. Sudden from the Hills, O'er rocks and woods, in broad brown cataracts,...

...hollow Voice, Blow, blustering, from the South — the Frost subdu'd, Gradual, resolves into a weeping Thaw. Spotted, the Mountains shine : loose Sleet descends, And floods the Country round : the Rivers swell, Impatient for the Day • ' • Those sullen Seas, That wash th' ungenial Pole,...

...Resistless, roaring; dreadful down it oomes From the rüde mountain and the mossy wild, Tumbling, etc. 'Subdued, The frost resolves into a trickling thaw....loose sleet descends, And floods the country round. The rivers swell, Of bonds impatient. Suddeu from the hüls, O'er rocks and woods, in broad brown cataracts,...

...rüde mountain and the mossy wild, TumbKng, etc. 'Subdued, The frost resolves into a trickling thaie. Spotted, the mountains shine; loose sleet descends, And floods the country round. The rivers swell, Of bonds impatient. Sudden from the hills, ' O'er rocks and woods, in broad brown...

...approaching, and expressions are thrown out significant of the breaking up of the reign of winter — "Muttering the winds at eve with blunted point Blow...Subdued The frost resolves into a trickling thaw." With fine skill the poet produces a fact rarely noticed except by sailors — that a thaw on land is...

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...trade — For, what his wisdom planned and power enforced, More potent still his great example showed. Muttering, the winds at eve with blunted point Blow...Subdued, The frost resolves into a trickling thaw. 990 Spotted the mountains shine : loose sleet descends, And floods the country round. The rivers swell,...

...winds at eve, with hoarser voice Blow blustering from the south. The frost subdu'd, 8397 D?o7 Gradual, resolves into a trickling thaw. Spotted the mountains shine; loose sleet descends. 705 And floods the country round. The rivers swell, Impatient for the day. Broke from the hills, O'er...

...point Blow hollow-blustering from the south. Subdued, The frost resolves into a trickling thaw. 990 Spotted the mountains shine : loose sleet descends, And floods the country round. The rivers swell, • 988-90 In the first ed. (March, 1726)— But hark ! the mighty winds with hollow...

...winds at eve, with hoarser voice Blow blustering from the south. The frost subdu'd, u 3 9? Gradual, resolves into a trickling thaw. Spotted the mountains shine; loose sleet descends, 705 And floods the country round. The rivers swell, Impatient for the day. Broke from the hills, O'er...