 | 1835 - 804 pages
...sea, and earth.1' " Bright and gigantic through the darkness, which closed arooDd it like the walls of hell, the mountain shone— a pile of fire! Its...blood-red hue of fire, which lighted up the whole atmoa phere far and wide; but oc/oir, the nether part of the mountain was still dark and shrouded,... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1839 - 450 pages
....nse and lurid glow. Bright and gigantic through the darkness, which" closed around it like the walls of hell, the Mountain shone — a pile of fire ! Its...lighted up the whole atmosphere far and wide ; but beluw, the nether part of the mountain was still dark and shrouded, — save in three places, adown... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1840 - 508 pages
...intense and lurid glow. Bright and gigantic through the darkness, which closed around it like the walls of hell, the Mountain shone — a pile of fire ! Its...places, adown which flowed, serpentine and irregular, (rt) rivers of the molten lava. Darkly red through the profound gloom of their banks, they flowed slowly... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1842 - 462 pages
...werb of one deep blood-red hue of fire, which lighted dp the whole atmosphere far and wide; but helow, the nether part of the mountain was still dark and shrouded, — save in three places , adewn which flowed, serpentine and irregular, (a) rivers of the molten lava; Darkly red throngh the... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1854 - 354 pages
...summit seemed riven in two ; or rather, above its surface there seemed to rise two monster shapes, each confronting each, as Demons contending for a...places, adown which flowed, serpentine and irregular,* rivers ot the molten lava. Darkly red through the profound gloom of their banks, they flowed slowly... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - Novelists, English - 1872 - 502 pages
...intense and lurid glow. Bright and gigantic through the darkness, which closed around it like the walls of hell. the mountain shone — a pile of fire! Its...places, adown which flowed, serpentine and irregular, rivers of the molten lava. Darkly red through the profound gloom of their banks, they flowed slowly... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...summit seemed riven in two ; or, rather, above its surface there seemed to rise two monster shapes, each confronting each, as Demons contending for a World. These were of one deep blood- red hue of fire, which lighted up the whole atmosphere far and wide ; but below, the nether... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1873 - 468 pages
...summit seemed riven in two ; or rather, above its surface there seemed to rise two monster shapes, each confronting each, as Demons contending for a World. These were of one deep blood-red hne of fire, which lighted up the whole atmosphere far and wide ; but, beloiv, the nether part of the... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...Its summit seemed riven in two; or rather, above its surface there seemed to rise two monster shapes, each confronting each, as demons contending for a...places, adown which flowed, serpentine and irregular, rivers of the molten lava. Darkly red through the profound gloom of their banks, they flowed slowly... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 448 pages
...Its summit seemed riven in two; or rather, above its surface there seemed to rise two monster shapes, each confronting each, as demons contending for a...deep, blood-red hue of fire, which lighted up the atmosphere far and wide ; but below, the nether part of the mountain was still dark and shrouded, save... | |
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... the nether part of the mountain was still dark and shrouded, save in three places, adown which flowed, serpentine and irregular,* rivers of the molten lava. 
