 ... stillness amid the calm of the arid and rainless desert, where no spring rises and no streamlet flows, and the long caravan plies its weary march amid the blinding glare of the sand, and the red unshaded rays of the fierce sun. But once and again,...  The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal - Page 3341852Full view - About this book
 | North American review - 1851 - 568 pages
...unshaded rays of the fierce sun. But once and again, and yet again, has the roar of Ocean been there. It is his sands that the winds heap up ; and it is the...rocks underneath enclose. There is silence on the tall mountain-peak, with its glittering mantle of snow, where the panting lungs labor to inhale the thin... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1847 - 454 pages
...unshaded rays of the fierce sun. But once and again, iind yet again, has the roar of Ocean been there. It is his sands that the winds heap up; and it is the skeleton remains of his vassals,—shells, and fish, and the stony coral,—that the• rocks underneath inclose. There is... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1851 - 468 pages
...unshaded rays of the fierce sun. But once and again, and yet again, has the roar of Ocean been there. It is his sands that the winds heap up ; and it is the...rocks underneath enclose. There is silence on the tall mountain-peak, with its glittering mantle of snow, where the panting lungs labor to inhale the thin... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1851 - 438 pages
...unshaded rays of the fierce sun. But once and again, and yet again, has the roar of Ocean been there. It is his sands that the winds heap up ; and it is the...rocks underneath enclose. There is silence on the tall mountain-peak, with its glittering mantle of snow, where the panting lungs labor to inhale the thin... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...unshaded rays of the fierce sun. But once and again, and yet again, has the roar of Ocean been there. It is his sands that the winds heap up ; and it is the...remains of his vassals — shells, and fish, and the strong coral — that the rocks underneath enclose. There is silence on the tall mountain-peak, with... | |
 | Norman Macleod - 1859 - 564 pages
...rays of the fierce sun. But once and again, and yet again, has the roar of the ocean been there. It is his sands that the winds heap up ; and it is the skeleton remanís of his vassals — shells, and fish, and the stony coral —that the rocks underneath inclose.... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...unshaded rays of the fierce sun. But once and again, and yet again, has the roar of Ocean been there. It is his sands that the winds heap up ; and it is the...remains of his vassals — shells, and fish, and the strong coral — that the rocks underneath enclose. There is silence on the tall mountain-peak, with... | |
 | 210 pages
...the fierce sun. But once and again, and 132 133 yet again, has the roar of the ocean heen there. It is his sands that the winds heap up ; and it is the...fish, and the stony coral that the rocks underneath inclose. There is silence on the tall mountain peak, with its glittering mantle of snow, where the... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1867 - 234 pages
...and again, and yet again, has the roar of Ocean been there. It is his sands that the winds heap Tip ; and it is the skeleton remains of his vassals— shells, and fish, and the strong coral—that the rocks underneath enclose. There is silence on the tall mountain-peak, with... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...unshaded rays of the fierce i-run. But once and again, and yet again, has the roar of Ocean been there. It is his sands that the winds heap up ; and it is the...remains of his vassals — shells, and fish, and the strong coral — that the rocks underneath enclose. There is silence on the tall mountain-peak, with... | |
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