 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...wind wafted from the mo.-.t distant countries into the secure and capacious port of Constantinople. The river Lycus, formed by the conflux of two little...fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom-, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convfcnievrt recess. As the vicissitudes... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 432 pages
...into the secure and capacious port of Constantinople. The river Lycus, formed by the conflux oftwo little streams, pours into the harbour a perpetual...fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals offish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As the vicissitudes... | |
 | 1830 - 288 pages
...every wind wafted from the most distant countries into the secure and capacious port of Constantinople. The river Lycus, formed by the conflux of two little...fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As the vicissitudes... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 pages
...from the most distant countries into the secure and capacious port of Constantinople. The river Lycua, formed by the conflux of two little streams, pours...fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As the vicissitudes... | |
 | William (of Malmesbury) - 1840 - 440 pages
...Occtdtis canalibus . . . importât.] The Danube empties itself through six mouths into the Euxine. The river Lycus, formed by the conflux of two little streams, pours into the harbour of Constantinople a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 830 pages
...promontory and the Tomb of Ajax. || " The river Lycus, formed by the conflux of two little streams, poors into the harbour a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As the vicissitudes... | |
 | William (of Malmesbury) - 1847 - 582 pages
...birth is contested. t Geor. i. 103. $ " The Danube empties itself through six mouths into the Euxine. The river Lycus, formed by the conflux of two little streams, pours into the harbour of Constantinople a perpetual supply of fresh water, which seryv5 to cleanse the bottom, and to invite... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1850 - 624 pages
...every wind wafted from the most distant countries into the secure and capacious port of Constantinople. The River Lycus, formed by the conflux of two little streams, pours into the harbor a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite the periodical... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pages
...every wind wafted from the most distant countries into the secure and capacious port of Constantinople. The river Lycus, formed by the conflux of two little...fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom and to invite the periodical shoals of fish to seek their retreat in that convenient recess. As the vicissitudes... | |
 | 1854 - 448 pages
...brother of our Lord ; Matthias ; the 1 The Danube empties itself through six mouths into the Euxine. The river Lycus, formed by the conflux of two little streams, pours into the harbour of Constantinople a perpetual supply of fresh water, which serves to cleanse the bottom, and to invite... | |
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The epithet of golden was expressive of the riches which every wind wafted from the most distant countries into the secure and capacious port of Constantinople. 
