 | Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar - 1841 - 398 Seiten
...BERWICK. MAINE BEQUEATHED BY Theodore Jewett Eastman A WINTER IN THE AZORES. VOL. I. Sea-girt islea That like to rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep. Comut. WINTER IN THE AZORES; AND A SUMMER AT THE BATHS OF THE FURNAS. JOSEPH BULLAR, MD HENRY BULLAR,... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1842 - 596 Seiten
...employs it in the third. But the Latin poets arc fonder of a poets will not. * For example, we read of " The sea-girt isles, That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep." How unadorned, if inlaid with rich and various gems ? This is a pendant to be placed exactly opposite:... | |
 | 1842 - 620 Seiten
...occasional extravagance of expression* such as we never find in Catullus, • For example, we read of " The sea-girt isles, That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep." How unadorned, if inlaid with rich and various germ ? This is a pendant to be placed exactly opposite... | |
 | 1842 - 630 Seiten
...extravagance of expression* such as we never find in Catullus, • For example, we read of " The sen-girt isles, That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep." How unadorned, if inlaid with rich and various gems ? This is a pendant to be placed exactly opposite... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 Seiten
...would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds With the rank vapours of this sin-worn mould. But to my task. Neptune, besides the sway Of every salt flood, and...the deep, Which he, to grace his tributary gods, By course commits to several government, And gives them leave to wear their sapphire crowns, And wield... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 Seiten
...would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds With the rank vapors of this sin-worn mould. But to my task, Neptune, besides the sway Of every salt flood, and each ebbing stream, Took in by lo Jovo 20 Imperial rule of all the sea-girt isles, That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1843 - 266 Seiten
...less sacred to penitence and prayer. The coast, south-west of Skibbereen, is dotted with islands — " Sea-girt isles, That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep j " the most famous of which is Cape Clear. Inisherken, immediately opposite Baltimore Harbour, is... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 Seiten
...ambrosial weeds With the rank vapors of this Bin- worn mould. But to my task. Neptune, besides the swny nelhcr Jove 20 Imperial rule of nil the sea-girt isles, That, like to rich and various gems, inlay... | |
 | James Dwight Dana - 1846 - 180 Seiten
...coral-reef gradually nears the surface, and finally becomes the foundation of one of the fairest of " The sea-girt isles, That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep," CHAPTER V. THEORY OF ZOOPHYTIC GROWTH AND REPRODUCTION, AND OF ORGANIC DEVELOPEMENT IN GENERAL. IN... | |
 | Quintus Horatius Flaccus - 1846 - 452 Seiten
...the Cyclades, but would, with equal propriety, be applied to any Islands. Thus Milton (Comus 39-24): The sea-girt isles That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep. So Shakspere, speaking of England, says : This precious stone set in the silver sea." HOWELL. ODH XV.—This... | |
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I would not soil these pure ambrosial weeds With the rank vapours of this sin-worn mould. But to my task. Neptune, besides the sway Of every salt flood and each ebbing stream, Took in by lot 'twixt high and nether Jove Imperial rule of all the sea-girt... 
