disparting

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Johnson cites with approval a sentence in "The Ruins of Rome":                     "At dead of night,     The hermit oft, midst his orisons, hears     Aghast the voice of Time disparting towers."

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Its effect upon the already tottering Whig party was like that of "the Voice," in the ruins of Rome, "disparting towers."

From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Moore, Thomas

The drooping boughs disparting, forth he sped, And then drew in his steed, to ask the path, Like a lost traveller in an alien land.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma

At length, as thro disparting clouds they rise, And hills above them still obstruct the skies, While a dead calm o'er all the region stood?

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

Such harmony from the contention flows, That the divided ear no preference knows: Betwixt them both disparting Music's State, While one exceeds in number, one in weight.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles