 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 324 pages
...so great, so sudden, and so dreadful as this : So where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden tb' impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air,...whole plains away, The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert all around him rise, And smother'd in the dusty whirlwind, dies. When... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 360 pages
...he could not have found a representation of a disaster so great, so sudden, and so dreadful as this; So where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden th'...through the air, in circling eddies play, Tear up the Kinds, and sweep whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 536 pages
...concluded in our next.) THE SANDY DESERTS OF AFRICA. " So where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sadden the impetuous hurricanes descend : Wheel through the air,...Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away— Th' affrighted traveller, with wild surprise, -j Sees the dry desert all around him rise, > And, smother'd... | |
 | British drama - 1824 - 834 pages
...unshaken Cato Will look aghast, while unforeseen destruction Pours in upon him thus from every side. So, where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden...whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert alt around him rise, And, smother'd in the dusty whirlwind, dies. [Exeunt.... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pages
...into the mouth of Syphax, a Numidian prince. u So where our wide Numidian states extend, Sudden the impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air,...whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert all around him rise, And, smothered in the dusty whirlwind, dies." The... | |
 | 1826 - 434 pages
...he could not have found a representation of a disaster so great, so sudden, and so dreadful as this: So where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden th'...whole plains away, The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert all around him rise, And smother'd in the dusty whirlwind, dies. When... | |
 | Adventure and adventurers - 1826 - 638 pages
...said, but we shall lame them in earnest so that So, where our wide Numidian wastes extend. Sudden the impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air,...whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, > Sees the dry desert all around him rise, > And smother'd in the dusty whirlwind dies. )... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - English drama - 1826 - 512 pages
...where our wide Numidian wastes «xtend, Sudden th'impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the ais, in circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep...whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert all around him rise, And smother'd in tbe dusty whirlwind, dies. [Exeunt,... | |
 | English drama - 1826 - 502 pages
...our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden th'impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air, i» circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep...whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert all around him rise, And smother'd in the dusty whirlwind, dies. [Exeunt,... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1826 - 768 pages
...SHIBLEV. So where our wide Numidiau wastes extend, Sudden th' impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheels through the air in circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away. ADDISON. Gust, storm, and tempest, which are applied figuratively, preserve their distinction in this... | |
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So, where our wide Numidian wastes extend, Sudden, th' impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert all around... 
