 Ulysses, with fancying it the scourge of seamen, and, that in a gale its caverns ' roar like dogs ; ' but I, as a sailor, never perceived any difference between the effect of the surges here, and on any other coast, yet I have frequently watched it closely...  The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - Page 4031825Full view - About this book
 | 1824 - 716 pages
...frequently dragged forth as an authority in history, theology, surgery, and geography, ought in justice to be read only as a poet. In the writings of so exquisite...that happened there during the dreadful earthquake of 1/83, when an overwhelming wave (supposed to have been occasioned by the fall of part of a promontory... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...те must not expect to find •11 his representations strictly confined to a mere accurate rtarration of facts. Moderns of intelligence, in visiting this...surmounted by a castle, with a sandy bay on each side. (P. 10?.) So deeply however is a love of the marvellous implanted in the human breast, so fond a preference... | |
 | 1824 - 728 pages
...as a sailor, never perceived any difference between the effect of the surges here, and on any otter coast, yet I have frequently watched it closely in...with a sandy bay on each side. The one on the South srde is memorable for the disaster that happened there during the dreadful earthquake of 1783, when... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1824 - 616 pages
...any difference between the surges here and on any other coast, yet I have frequently watched it close in bad weather. It is now, as I presume it ever was,...surmounted by a castle,) with a sandy bay on each side." — p. 107. There, Homer ! ' Mark how a plain tale sets you down !' Charybdis. We suppose a greater... | |
 | 1824 - 612 pages
...here and on any other coast, yet I have frequently watched it close in bad weather. It is now, as 1 presume it ever was, a common rock of bold approach,...surmounted by a castle,) with a sandy bay on each side.' — p. 107. There, Homer! ' Mark how a plain tale sets you down!' Charybdis. We suppose a greater number... | |
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...watched it closely in bad weather. It is now, as I presume it ever was, a common rock, of bold approacfi, a little worn at its base, and surmounted by a castle, with a sandy bay on each side. — Smyth's Sicily. CHARYBDIS. OUTSIDE th« tongue of land, or Braccio di St. Rainiere, that forms... | |
 | 1825 - 590 pages
...it ever was, a common rock, of bold approach, a little worn at its base, and surmounted by a castles with a sandy bay on each side. The one on the south...memorable for the disaster that happened there, during th« dreadful earthquake of 1783, when au overwhelming wave (supposed to have been occasioned by the... | |
 | John Purdy - 1826 - 402 pages
...their imaginations, already heated by such descriptions as that of the escape of the Argonauts and of the disasters of Ulysses, with fancying it the scourge...each side. The one on the south side is memorable from the disaster that happened there during the dreadful earthquake of 1783, when an overwhelming... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1827 - 588 pages
...with fancying it the scourge of seamen, and that, in a gale, its caverns " roar like dogs ;" but 1, as a sailor, never perceived any difference between...its base, and surmounted by a castle, with a sandy bar on each side. The one on the south side is memorable ' for the disaster that happened there during... | |
 | Old Sailor - 1826 - 534 pages
...frequei* watched it. closely in bad wealte It is now, as I presume item"1 a common rock of bold appro* a little worn at its base, and surmounted by a castle, with a saw bay on each side. — Smyt h's $$' Cliarybdis. Outside the tongue of lawl " Braccio di St. Rainiere,... | |
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