Misprinted in 1851 as “slitty sound”. Probably John Home, Douglas (1756) IV:i.
“the confused noise of the warriors, and garments rolled in blood,”
The 1804 text has “warrior”. Isaiah 9:5 (King James): “For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood.”
until “the heavens were arrayed in blackness.”
Isaiah 50:3: “I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”
he cast a “longing, lingering look”
Thomas Gray (1716-71) Elegy.
“Blue trembling billows, topp’d with foam,”
The 1804 and 1811 texts have the correct form “tumbling billows”. Anarchiad, a New England Poem (1786-87) with joint authors Joel Barlow (1754-1812), David Humphreys (1752-1818), John Trumbull (1750-1831) and Lemuel Hopkins (1750-1801).
“dingy scud”