 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...  The Campaign in the Crimea: An Historical Sketch - Page 56by George Brackenbury - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...day. 100 Within a long recess a bay there lies, Edged round with cliffs high pointing to the skie« : s guilty soul ; The wretch then lifted to the uupitying...Whose wounds, yet fresh, with bloody hand he strook, silver'd o'er the deep. I only in the bay refused to moor. And fix'd, without, my halsers to the shore.... | |
 | Homer - 1836 - 356 pages
...return: 90 HOM.—in.—H " Within a long recess a bay there lies, Edged round with cliffs high pointing to the skies ; The jutting shores that swell on either...rushing tide. Our eager sailors seize the fair retreat, 105 Six days and nights a doubtful course we steer, The next proud Laraos' stately towers appear,.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...the night and day. 100 Within a long recess a hay there lies, Edged round with cliffs high pointing much more labour than either pleasure or reputation. The larger part of the extrac hreak the rushing tide. Our eager sailors seize the fair retreat, And hound within the port their crowded... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...the night and day. " Within a long recess a bay there lies, Edged round with cliffs, high pointing light shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder...sword ! Oh ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, 1я silver'd o'er the deep. I only in the bay refused to moor, And fix'd, without, my halsers to the shore.... | |
 | Homer - 1842 - 358 pages
...the night and day. 100 " Within a long recess a bay there lies, Edged round with cliffs high pointing to the skies ; The jutting shores that swell on either...rushing tide. Our eager sailors seize the fair retreat, 105 And bound within the port their crowded fleet ; For here retired the sinking billows sleep, And... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...skies: The jutting shores that swell on cither side 7ontract its mouth, and break the rushing tide. Jur eager sailors seize the fair retreat, And bound within...retired the sinking billows sleep, And smiling calmness siher'd o'er the deep I only in the bay refused to moor, And fa'd, without, my halsers to the shore.... | |
 | Homer - 1853 - 398 pages
...night and day.3 100 " Within a long recess a bay there lies, Edged round with cliffs high pointing to the skies ; The jutting shores that swell on either...retreat, And bound within the port their crowded fleet; 2 There is much doubt as to the real meaning of this passage. For here retired the sinking billows... | |
 | Karl Heinrich E. Koch, Carl Heinrich Emil KOCH - 1855 - 206 pages
...Bope thus translates : " Within a long recess a bar there lies, Edged round with cliffs, high pointing to the skies ; The jutting shores that swell on either...tide. Our eager sailors seize the fair retreat, And hound within the port their crowded fleet ; Jfor here, retired, the sinking billows sleep, And smiling... | |
 | Anthony Grant - 1855 - 182 pages
...jutting shores that dwell on either side Contract its mouth, and break the rushing tide, 1 Strabo. C Our eager sailors seize the fair retreat, And bound...retired the sinking billows sleep, And smiling calmness silvers o'er the deep." Odyss. i. 101—108. And yet the bright fancy of the Greeks made this dismal... | |
 | Mrs. Andrew Neilson - 1855 - 396 pages
...jutting shores that dwell on either side Contract its mouth, and break the rushing tide, 1 Strabo. C Our eager sailors seize the fair retreat, And bound...retired the sinking billows sleep, And smiling calmness silvers o'er the deep." Odyss. i. 101—108. And yet the bright fancy of the Greeks made this dismal... | |
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