...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." Ho WELL. Ona...

...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 ' ; the coral polyps now yielding place to the flowers and groves of the land, which fulfil their end...

...approve of the apposition in The nodding horrour of whom shady hrowa, T. 47. Before which I find Bea-Rirt isles That, like to rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep. How can a bosom be unadorned which already is inlaid with gems 1 Sauthey. You will object no less strongly...

...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...Took in by lot, 'twixt high and nether Jove, Imperial rale of all the sea-girt isles, That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the...

...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 bosorn of the deep;" the coral polyps now yield place to the flowers and groves of the land, which...

...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 governments, And gives them leave to wear their sapphire crowns, And wield...

...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, 80 15. But for such.] The adverbial phrase for such, and the adverb not, in the following line, are...

...brook, Or on the beached margent of the ocean ;" or were of the number of those who, with Poseidon, " Took in, by lot, "twixt high and nether Jove, Imperial rule of all the веа-girt isles." And the modern lovers of nature, though they no longer recognize the mythologie...

...And, " How hard the task ! how rare the godlike rage." Tickell. Prol. (Steele. Misc. p. 70.) V. 53. " That like to rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep." Comus, ver. 22. And see Young. " Ocean," st. xxiv. " There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowells...

...would not soil these pure ambrosial needs With the rank Vapors of this sin-worn mould. But to my task. rdsworth 20 Imperial rule of all the sea-girt isles, That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned...