| Robert Southey - 1809 - 288 pagina’s
...atmosphere assumes an alarming aspect. The sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy ; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour. The air is not cloudy, but grey and thick, and is in fact filled with an extremely subtile dust, which penetrates... | |
| Robert Southey - 1821 - 296 pagina’s
...atmosphere assumes an alarming aspect. The sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy ; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour. The air is not cloudy, but grey and thick, and is in fact filled with an extremely subtile dust, which penetratis... | |
| Job (the patriarch), John Fry - 1827 - 630 pagina’s
...atmosphere assumes an alarming aspect; the sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour, the streets are deserted, and the dead silence of the night reigns everywhere:" vol. i. 50. See further... | |
| Josiah Conder - 1831 - 362 pagina’s
...atmosphere assumes an alarming aspect. The sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour. The air is not cloudy, but gray and thick, and is in fact filled with an extremely subtile dust, which penetrates... | |
| Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1831 - 510 pagina’s
...experienced it. When they begin to blow, the sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy ; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour ; the air is not cloudy, but gmy and thick, and is filled with a subtile dust, which penetrates every where:... | |
| Mrs. Hemans, Reginald Heber - 1833 - 526 pagina’s
...experienced it. When they begin to blow, the sky, at other times eo clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy ; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour; the air is not cloudy, but gray and thick, and is filled with a subtile dust, which penetrates every where... | |
| Mrs. Hemans - 1836 - 472 pagina’s
...experienced it. When they begin to blow, the sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy ; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour ; the air is not cloudy, but gray and thick, and is filled with a subtile dust, which penetrates every where... | |
| Robert Southey - 1838 - 476 pagina’s
...atmosphere assumes an alarming aspect. The sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour. The air is not cloudy, but grey and thick, and is in fact filled with an extremely subtile dust, which penetrates... | |
| Robert Southey - 1838 - 696 pagina’s
...atmosphere assumes an alarming aspect. The sky, at other times so clear in this climate, becomes dark and heavy; the sun loses his splendour, and appears of a violet colour. The air is not cloudy, but grey and thick, and is in fact filled with an extremely subtile dust, which penetrates... | |
| Sir Francis Bond Head - 1840 - 398 pagina’s
...appearance and effects of this " wind of the desert" are more fully described in the following account. " The sky, at, other times serene and cloudless, appears...natural qualities ; marble, iron, and water are hot, ami deceive the hand which touches them. Every kind of moisture is absorbed ; the •kin is parched-... | |
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