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" Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes; On all sides round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong. Deep echoing groan the thickets brown; Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. "
History of Huron County, Ohio: Its Progress and Development, with ... - Page 34
by Abraham J. Baughman - 1909
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An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the ..., Volume 1

Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...mounts exulting on triumphant wings. The following verse gives us the sound of felling trees in a wood. Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes...round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong. Deep echoing groan the thickets brown; Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. In the succeeding lines,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 790 pages
...sbockt axles But when arriv'd at Ida's spreading woods [bound. (Fair Ida water'd with descending floods) loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes...all sides round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong. Deep-echoing groan the thickets brown ; Then, rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. The wood...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Pope's Homer's ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 760 pages
...But when arriv'd at Ida's spread ing woods [bound. (Fair ida watcr'd with descending floods) l .und sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes ; On...all sides round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong. Deep-echoing groan the thickets brown ; Then, rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. The wood...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main, felling Trees in a Wood. Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes, On all sides round the forest hurl&her oaks Headlong. Deep echoing groan the thickets brown : Then rustling, crackling, crashing,...
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Enfield's Guide to Elocution: Improved and Classically Divided Into Six ...

John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...resembling, one that » not articulate. EXAMPLE; '" Loud sounds the «»y redoubling., strokes on* stroke^ On all sides round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong. Deep echoing groan the thickets If own, Then RUSTLING, CRACKLING, CRASHING, thunders, down." POPE. E 3; A word....
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A Treatise on the Origin, Qualities, and Cultivation of Moss-earth, with ...

William Aiton - Manures - 1811 - 438 pages
...Diane in Sevtr. ing the fens df the island. With justice therefore it might at that time' be said, " Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes,...the forest hurls her oaks Headlong : deep echoing groan the thickets brown ; Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down." WHITAKER'S HISTORY OF...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...unbending corn and skims along the main. Felling Trees. Loud sounds the axe redoubling strokes on strokes r On all sides round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong. Deep echoing groan the thickets brown; Then rustling, cracking, cracking, thunder down. Sound oj a Botu String....
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...Xot so when'swift Camilla scours the plain, Flic* o'erth' unbending corn, and skims along themain^ Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes...round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong. Deep echoing groan the thickets brown; Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. Fellmg trees in a wood....
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1813 - 276 pages
...seours the plain, Flies o'er tfr unbending eorn, and skims along the main, Felling Threes in a Wood. Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes...sides round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong. Deep eehoing groan the thiekets brown-;. Then, rustling, eraekling, erashing, thunder down. Sound of a Bow...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 2

Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...fly, Twang'd short and s/iar/i, like the shrill swallow's cry. The sound of felling trees ID a wood : Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes,...round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong. Deep echoing groan the thickets brown, ' ' Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down. Iliad, xziii. 144....
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