| William Hickling Prescott - 1847 - 714 páginas
...districts, and they were drawing near the once famous gold quarries on the way to Caxamalca : — " Rocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines. That on the high equator ridgy rise." Here Pizarro halted for the coming up of the rear. The air was sharp and frosty ; and the soldiers,... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 páginas
...crownM And barbarous wealth, that see, each circling year, Returning suns and double seasons pass : Rocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines, That on the high equator ridgy rise, Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays : Majestic woods, of every vigorous green, Stage... | |
| James Thomson - 1849 - 772 páginas
...barbarous wealth, that see, eaeh eireling year, Returning suns and doable seasons t pass : 645 Roeks rieh in gems, and mountains big with mines, That on the high equator ridgy rise, Whenee many a bursting stream auriferous plays : Majestie woods, of every vigorous green, Stage... | |
| Henry Sowerby - 1850 - 410 páginas
...arrives at the true end and legitimate aim of all scientific inquiries. DISTBIBUTIOBT OP MIWEEALS. " Rocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines, That on the high equator ridgy rise, Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays." Thomson. THE science of Mineralogy is most intimately... | |
| 1850 - 202 páginas
...Caithness, more than six times. Thus Thomson writes of these mountains in soft poetic strains : — " Rocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines, That on the high equator ridgy rise, Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays." The plain of Quito, which may be considered... | |
| Henry Sowerby - 1850 - 392 páginas
...at the true end and legitimate aim of all scientific inquiries. DISTBIBTJTION OF MINEKALS. " Eocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines, That on the high equator ridgy rise, Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays." Thomson. THE science of Mineralogy is most intimately... | |
| James Thomson - 1850 - 800 páginas
...barbarous wealth, that see, eaeh eireling year, Returning suns and double seasons t pass : 645 Roeks rieh in gems, and mountains big with mines, That on the high equator ridgy rise, Whenee many a bursting stream auriferous plays : Majestie woods, of every vigorous green, Stage... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1851 - 854 páginas
...erown'd And barbarous wealth, that see, each cireling year, Returning suns and doable seasons pass : Rocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines. That on the high equator ridgy rise, Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays ; Majestic woods, of every vigorous green, Stage... | |
| 1852 - 880 páginas
...crown'd And barbarous wealth, that see, each circling year, Returning suns and double seasons pass : Rocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines, That on the high equator ridgy rise, Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays ; Majestic woods, of every vigorous green. Stage... | |
| Joshua A. Carnes - 1852 - 498 páginas
...beautiful. " Now come, bold Fancy, spread a daring flight, And view the wonders of the torrid zone : ***** Rocks rich in gems, and mountains big with mines, That on the high equator ridgy rise, Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays ; Majestic woods, of every vigorous green, Stage... | |
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