 | British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...port their crowded fleet: For here retired the sinking billows sleep, And smiling calmness silver'd o'er the deep. I only in the bay refused to moor, And fix'd, without, my halsers to the shore. ' From thence we climb'da point, whose airy brow Commands... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...port their crowded fleet ; For here retired the linking billows sleep, And smiling calmness lilver'd ts, commodious gold hestows : ,Tfo thus we eat the h fix'd, without, my halsers to the ahore. 11 From thence we climb'da point, whose airy brow Commands... | |
 | Harriet Morton (author of Protestant vigils.) - 1829 - 626 pages
...The jutting shores that swell on either side, Contract its mouth, and break the rushing tide : And here retired, the sinking billows sleep, And smiling...only in the bay refused to moor, And fixed without my haulsers to the shore. From thence we climbed a point, whose airy brow Commands the prospect of the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 798 pages
...hammer. Id. A gritty stone, with small spangles of a white »iVrery tile in it. Woodward on Fossil*. Here, retired, the sinking billows sleep, And smiling calmness silvered o'er the deep. Pope. Pallas, piteous of her plaintive cries, In slumber closed her si/cer-streaming eyes. Id. The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...port their crowded fleet For here retired the sinking billows sleep. And smiling calmness silver'd And bum in Cupid's flames — but burn alive.' ' Res fix'd, without, my halsers to the shore. 110 From thence we climb'da point, whose airy brow Commands... | |
 | Homer - 1836 - 356 pages
...port their crowded fleet; For here retired the sinking billows sleep, And smiling calmness silver'd o'er the deep. I only in the bay refused to moor, And fix'd, without, my halsers to the shore. 110 " From thence we climb'da pointy* whose airy brow Commands... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...port their crowded fleet : For here retired the sinking billows sleep, And smiling calmness silver'd o'er the deep. I only in the bay refused to moor, And fix'd, without, my halsers to the shore. " From thence we climbed a point, whose airy brow Commands... | |
 | Homer - 1842 - 358 pages
...port their crowded fleet ; For here retired the sinking billows sleep, And smiling calmness silver'd o'er the deep. I only in the bay refused to moor, And flx'd, without, my halsers to the shore. 1 10 " From thence we climb'da point, whose airy brow Commands... | |
 | Homer - 1853 - 398 pages
...meaning of this passage. For here retired the sinking billows sleep, And smiling calmness silver'd o'er the deep. I only in the bay refused to moor, And fix'd, without, my halsers to the shore. 110 " From thence we climb'da point, whose airy brow Commands... | |
 | George Brackenbury - 1855 - 600 pages
...thus translated by Pope: — a long recess a bay there lies, Edged round with cliffs, high polnting to the skies ; The jutting shores, that swell on either...description applies so justly and accurately to the peculiar characteristies of the land-locked harbour of Balaklava, and illustrates so happily the point of view... | |
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Within a long recess a bay there lies, Edged round with cliffs high pointing to the skies, The jutting shores that swell on either side Contract its mouth, and break the rushing tide. Our eager sailors seize the fair retreat, And bound within the port... 
